From text you wrote to instructions a CPU runs. A compiler is a translator with several passes. It...
From text you wrote to instructions a CPU runs.
A compiler is a translator with several passes. It reads your source, checks it makes sense, and lowers it step by step into machine code — optimizing along the way.
The classic phases
Lexing. Break the source into tokens: keywords, identifiers, literals.
Parsing. Assemble tokens into an abstract syntax tree following the grammar.
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