FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

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The syntax analyzer takes the lexical units from the lexical analyzer and uses them to construct hierarchical structures, representing the syntactic structure of the program. This is what we called ____
A
Constant
B
Derivations
C
Symbol Table
D
Parse Tree
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The syntax analyzer takes the lexical units from the lexical analyzer and uses them to construct hierarchical structures called parse trees.

Detailed explanation-2: -The parser (syntax analyzer) receives the source code in the form of tokens from the lexical analyzer and performs syntax analysis, which create a tree-like intermediate representation that depicts the grammatical structure of the token stream. Syntax analysis is also called parsing.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lexical Analysis is the very first phase in the compiler designing. A Lexer takes the modified source code which is written in the form of sentences . In other words, it helps you to convert a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens. The lexical analyzer breaks this syntax into a series of tokens.

Detailed explanation-4: -It gathers modified source code that is written in the form of sentences from the language preprocessor. The lexical analyzer is responsible for breaking these syntaxes into a series of tokens, by removing whitespace in the source code. If the lexical analyzer gets any invalid token, it generates an error.

Detailed explanation-5: -When the token pattern does not match the prefix of the remaining input, the lexical analyzer gets stuck and has to recover from this state to analyze the remaining input. In simple words, a lexical error occurs when a sequence of characters does not match the pattern of any token.

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