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Regular languages are a category of languages (sometimes termed Chomsky Type 3) which can be matched by a state machine (more specifically, by a deterministic finite automaton or a nondeterministic finite automaton) constructed from a regular expression.
[1] [2] It is specialized for use in text editors, as it supports incremental parsing for updating parse trees while code is edited in real time, [3] and provides a built-in S-expression query system for analyzing code.
In computer science, a compiler-compiler or compiler generator is a programming tool that creates a parser, interpreter, or compiler from some form of formal description of a programming language and machine. The most common type of compiler-compiler is called a parser generator. [1] It handles only syntactic analysis.
Ragel is a finite-state machine compiler and a parser generator. Initially Ragel supported output for C, C++ and Assembly source code, [4] later expanded to support several other languages including Objective-C, D, Go, Ruby, and Java. [5] Additional language support is also in development. [6]
re2c is a free and open-source lexer generator for C, C++, D, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, OCaml, Python, Rust, V and Zig. It compiles declarative regular expression specifications to deterministic finite automata .
GCC started out using Bison, but switched to a hand-written recursive-descent parser for C++ in 2004 (version 3.4), [13] and for C and Objective-C in 2006 (version 4.1) [14] The Go programming language (GC) used Bison, but switched to a hand-written scanner and parser in version 1.5.
Lemon is a parser generator, maintained as part of the SQLite project, that generates a look-ahead LR parser (LALR parser) in the programming language C from an input context-free grammar. The generator is quite simple, implemented in one C source file with another file used as a template for output. Lexical analysis is performed externally.
The input to the code generator typically consists of a parse tree or an abstract syntax tree. [1] The tree is converted into a linear sequence of instructions, usually in an intermediate language such as three-address code. Further stages of compilation may or may not be referred to as "code generation", depending on whether they involve a ...