The Symbol Table

Jiang Wenhong

Associate Professor

School of Computer and Information Technology BJTU [email protected]

Symbol Table

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Aims

o To describe the function and possible structure of the single most important data structure of a compiler…o To describe how the Symbol Table copes with scoping, blocks and scoping rules

12/6/2023

Symbol Table

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Scanner

Tokens

Literal Parser

Table Syntax Tree

Semantics Analyzer

Symbol Annotated Tree Table Source Code Optimizer

Intermediate code Error Code Generator Handler