https://vyorkin.org/tags/ocamlex/ Recent content in Ocamlex on transcendental kyberautism Hugo en Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://vyorkin.org/posts/making-of-tiger-2-lexical-analysis/ Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://vyorkin.org/posts/making-of-tiger-2-lexical-analysis/ <h2 id="intro"> Intro <a class="heading-link" href="#intro"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>We need a way to translate a program written in one (human-friendly) language to another (machine-specific) language. Generally, this work is splitted into 2 parts: <strong>analysis</strong> and <strong>synthesis</strong>.</p> <p>The <strong>synthesis</strong>-part (back end) is responsible for the code generation and optimizations.</p> <p><strong>Analysis</strong>-part (front end) is responsible for breaking the program apart to understand its structure and meaning. There are 3 commonly used <strong>analysis</strong> phases:</p>