TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR COMPILER DESIGN
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Question
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Blank spaces and comment lines will be eliminated by the compiler during ____
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lexical analysis
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syntax analysis
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preprocessing
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code optimization
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Whitespace. Whitespace is composed of strings of Unicode SPACE, CHARACTER TABULATION, FORM FEED (FF), LINE FEED (LF) and CARRIAGE RETURN (CR) characters. Outside of a comment, string literal, or single quoted literal, whitespace acts as a token separator and is immediately discarded by the lexer.
Detailed explanation-2: -Roles of the Lexical analyzer Removes white spaces and comments from the source program.
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