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Eli: Translator Construction Made Easy

General Information

o Eli: Translator Construction Made Easy
o Global Index
o Frequently Asked Questions
o Typical Eli Usage Errors

Tutorials

o Quick Reference Card
o Guide For new Eli Users
o Release Notes of Eli
o Tutorial on Name Analysis
o Tutorial on Scope Graphs
o Tutorial on Type Analysis
o Typical Eli Usage Errors

Reference Manuals

o User Interface
o Eli products and parameters
o LIDO Reference Manual
o Typical Eli Usage Errors

Libraries

o Eli library routines
o Specification Module Library

Translation Tasks

o Lexical analysis specification
o Syntactic Analysis Manual
o Computation in Trees

Tools

o LIGA Control Language
o Debugging Information for LIDO
o Graphical ORder TOol

o FunnelWeb User's Manual

o Pattern-based Text Generator
o Property Definition Language
o Operator Identification Language
o Tree Grammar Specification Language
o Command Line Processing
o COLA Options Reference Manual

o Generating Unparsing Code

o Monitoring a Processor's Execution

Administration

o System Administration Guide
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Eli's error messages

Messages describing static errors.

  • Helpful in most cases
    • Multiple definitions (ptg)
    • Symbol must be indexed (liga)
    • No such canned description (gla)
    • Undefined symbol: getval (cc)

  • Sometimes hard to relate to the specification (too concise/too tool specific)
    • Not in the grammar (gla)
    • One of the multiple roots (maptool)
    • Symbol identifier clashes with other identifier (liga)

  • Sometimes hard to trace back
    • Inherits INCLUDING computation with empty remote list (liga)

  • Sometimes hard to correct
    • Grammar is not LALR(1) (pgs, cola)
    • Did not find evaluation order (liga)

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