syntax-directed compiler
syntax-directed compiler
[′sin‚taks di¦rek·təd kəm′pīl·ər] (computer science)
A general-purpose compiler that can service a family of languages by providing the syntactic rules for language analysis in the form of data, typically in tabular form, rather than using a specific parsing algorithm for a particular language. Also known as syntax-oriented compiler.
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