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W. M. Waite
This document describes an analyzer for Pascal (ANSI/IEEE 770X3.97-1983). It was generated from an Eli specification of that analyzer.
An abstract syntax tree structure describing the essential semantics of Pascal is given in Section 1, along with the Eli specifications necessary to build the AST corresponding to any legal program.
The computations specified in Sections 2 and 3 decorate the nodes of the tree with information about the binding of identifiers and the type of expressions, respectively. Section 4 uses these decorations to report semantic errors.
Eli can generate an executable analyzer for Pascal from the specifications used to derive this document. If these specifications are combined with Eli specifications for translation and encoding tasks, Eli can generate a complete compiler for Pascal.
The translation specification will need to deal with the following important issues:
