Attributes and Attribute Grammars

• Attributes

  • variables (type,offset,first or last occurrence,...)
  • constants (type, value, scope, ...)

• Attribute grammar(Syntax-directed definition)

  • A generalization of CFG in which each grammar symbol has an associated set of attributes
  • Semantics rules for computing attribute values

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