Re: Project on Compiler

djohnson@arnold.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
Sun, 16 Jan 1994 21:10:53 GMT

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From: djohnson@arnold.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
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Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
References: 94-01-044 94-01-047
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 21:10:53 GMT

> Second, you will save a good deal by implementing only elementry or
> no error recovery (ie., simply terminate on error). Of course, you'll miss
> an important subject by not doing this, and it may not be admissable to
> your teacher.


But if the students actually have to write sample programs in the
language to compile, they will quickly learn the lesson about how
important error handling is :-)


> As mentioned, the fastest way to do the parser is with a tool and a
> predefined grammar, but a parser for full pascal can be finished in 2
> weeks to 1 month in normal C or Pascal code.


Here, as in other places I suspect, what is done is that you're
given a nearly completed grammar in YACC, and then that must be
modified. Doing one from scratch might be a bit more instructive,
but it takes so much extra time it's probably not worth it.
For instance, a new type or construct must be added to the grammar,
or a the last remaining conflicts must be removed, or error handling
must be added.
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Darin Johnson
djohnson@ucsd.edu
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