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Learn LLVM 12

You're reading from   Learn LLVM 12 A beginner's guide to learning LLVM compiler tools and core libraries with C++

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839213502
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – The Basics of Compiler Construction with LLVM
2. Chapter 1: Installing LLVM FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Touring the LLVM Source 4. Chapter 3: The Structure of a Compiler 5. Section 2 – From Source to Machine Code Generation
6. Chapter 4: Turning the Source File into an Abstract Syntax Tree 7. Chapter 5: Basics of IR Code Generation 8. Chapter 6: IR Generation for High-Level Language Constructs 9. Chapter 7: Advanced IR Generation 10. Chapter 8: Optimizing IR 11. Section 3 –Taking LLVM to the Next Level
12. Chapter 9: Instruction Selection 13. Chapter 10: JIT Compilation 14. Chapter 11: Debugging Using LLVM Tools 15. Chapter 12: Create Your Own Backend 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Semantic analysis

The semantic analyzer walks the AST and checks for various semantic rules of the language; for example, a variable must be declared before use or types of variables must be compatible in an expression. The semantic analyzer can also print out warnings if it finds a situation that can be improved. For the example expression language, the sematic analyzer must check that each used variable is declared, because that is what the language requires. A possible extension (which will not be implemented here) is to print a warning message if a declared variable is not used.

The semantic analyzer is implemented in the Sema class, and semantic analysis is performed by the semantic() method. Here is the complete Sema.h header file:

#ifndef SEMA_H
#define SEMA_H
#include "AST.h"
#include "Lexer.h"
class Sema {
public:
  bool semantic(AST *Tree);
};
#endif

The implementation is in the Sema.cpp file. The interesting part is the semantic analysis...

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