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1 CS 321 Programming Languages and Compilers VI. Parsing

2 Parsing Calculate grammatical structure of program, like diagramming sentences, where: Tokens = words Programs = sentences For further information, read: Aho, Sethi, Ullman, Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (a.k.a, the Dragon Book ) 2

3 Outline of coverage Context-free grammars Parsing Tabular Parsing Methods One pass» Top-down Yacc» Bottom-up 3

4 What parser does: Extracts grammatical structure of program function-def name arguments stmt-list main stmt expression expression variable cout operator << expression string hello, world\n 4

5 Context-free languages Grammatical structure defined by context-free grammar. statement fi labeled-statement expression-statement compound-statement labeled-statement fi ident: statement case constant-expression : statement compound-statement fi { declaration-list statement-list } Context-free = only one non-terminal in left-part. terminal non-terminal 5

6 Parse trees Parse tree = tree labeled with grammar symbols, such that: If node is labeled A, and its children are labeled x 1...x n, then there is a production A fi x 1...x n Parse tree from A = root labeled with A Complete parse tree = all leaves labeled with tokens 6

7 Parse trees and sentences Frontier of tree = labels on leaves (in left-to-right order) Frontier of tree from S is a sentential form. Frontier of a complete tree from S is a sentence. L L ; E E Frontier a 7

8 Example G: L fi L ; E E E fi a b Syntax trees from start symbol (L): L E a L E a L ; E L E a L L ; ; E b E b Sentential forms: a a;e a;b;b 8

9 Derivations Alternate definition of sentence: Given a, b in V*, say a b is a derivation step if a = a Aa and b = a ga, where A fi g is a production g is a sentential form iff there exists a derivation (sequence of derivation steps) S... g ( alternatively, we say that S * g ) Two definitions are equivalent, but note that there are many derivations corresponding to each parse tree. 9

10 Another example H: L fi E ; L E E fi a b L E a E L ; L E E b L ; E b L ; L E a a 10

11 Ambiguity For some purposes, it is important to know whether a sentence can have more than one parse tree. A grammar is ambiguous if there is a sentence with more than one parse tree. Example: E fi E+E E*E id E E E + E E * E id E * E E + E id id id id id 11

12 Ambiguity Ambiguity is a function of the grammar rather than the language. Certain unambiguous grammars may have equivalent ambiguous ones. 12

13 Grammar Transformations Grammars can be transformed without affecting the language generated. Three transformations are discussed next: Eliminating Ambiguity Eliminating Left Recursion (i.e.productions of the form AfiA ) Left Factoring 13

14 Grammar Transformation 1. Eliminating Ambiguity Sometimes an ambiguous grammar can be rewritten to eliminate ambiguity. For example, expressions involving additions and products can be written as follows: E fi E+T T T fi T*id id The language generated by this grammar is the same as that generated by the grammar on tranparency 11. Both generate id(+id *id)* However, this grammar is not ambiguous. 14

15 Grammar Transformation 1. Eliminating Ambiguity (Cont.) One advantage of this grammar is that it represents the precedence between operators. In the parsing tree, products appear nested within additions E E + T T id T id * id 15

16 Grammar Transformation 1. Eliminating Ambiguity (Cont.) The most famous example of ambiguity in a programming language is the dangling else. Consider S fi if bthen Selse S if b then S a 16

17 Grammar Transformation 1. Eliminating Ambiguity (Cont.) When there are two nested ifs and only one else.. S if β then S else S if βthen S α S α if β then S if β then S else S α α 17

18 Grammar Transformation 1. Eliminating Ambiguity (Cont.) In most languages (including C++ and Java), each else is assumed to belong to the nearest if that is not already matched by an else. This association is expressed in the following (unambiguous) grammar: S fi Matched Unmatched Matched fi if b then Matched else Matched a Unmatched fi if b then S if b then Matched else Unmatched 18

19 Grammar Transformation 1. Eliminating Ambiguity (Cont.) Ambiguity is a function of the grammar It is undecidable whether a context free grammar is ambiguous. The proof is done by reduction to Post s correspondence problem. Although there is no general algorithm, it is possible to isolate certain constructs in productions which lead to ambiguous grammars. 19

20 Grammar Transformation 1. Eliminating Ambiguity (Cont.) For example, a grammar containg the production AfiAA would be ambiguous, because the substring aaa has two parses. A A A A A A A A α α A A α α This ambiguity disappears if we use the productions AfiAB B and Bfi or the productions AfiBA B and Bfi. α α 20

21 Grammar Transformation 1. Eliminating Ambiguity (Cont.) Other three examples of ambiguous productions are: AfiAaA AfiaA Ab and AfiaA aaba A language generated by an ambiguous Context Free Grammar is inherently ambiguous if it has no unambiguous Context Free Grammar. (This can be proven formally) An example of such a language is L={a i b j c m i=j or j=m} which can be generated by the grammar: SfiAB DC AfiaA e BfibBc e CficC e DfiaDb e 21

22 Grammar Transformations 2. Elimination of Left Recursion A grammar is left recursive if it has a nonterminal A and a derivation A + Aa for some string a. Top-down parsing methods (to be discussed shortly) cannot handle left-recursive grammars, so a transformation to eliminate left recursion is needed. Immediate left recursion (productions of the form AfiA ) can be easily eliminated. We group the A-productions as AfiA 1 A 2 A m b 1 b 2 b n where no b i begins with A. Then we replace the A- productions by Afi b 1 A b 2 A b n A A fi 1 A 2 A m A e 22

23 Grammar Transformations 2. Elimination of Left Recursion (Cont.) The previous transformation, however, does not eliminate left recursion involving two or more steps. For example, consider the grammar SfiAa b AfiAc Sd e S is left-recursive because S Aa Sda, but it is not immediately left recursive. 23

24 Grammar Transformations 2. Elimination of Left Recursion (Cont.) Algorithm. Eliminate left recursion Arrange nonterminals in some order A 1, A 2,,, A n for i =1 to n { } for j =1 to i -1 { replace each production of the form A i A j γ by the production A i δ 1 γ δ 2 γ δ n γ where A j δ 1 δ 2 δ n are all the current A j -productions } eliminate the immediate left recursion among the A i -productions 24

25 Grammar Transformations 2. Elimination of Left Recursion (Cont.) To show that the previous algorithm actually works all we need notice is that iteration i only changes productions with A i on the left-hand side. And m > i in all productions of the form A i fia m. This can be easily shown by induction. It is clearly true for i=1. If it is true for all i<k, then when the outer loop is executed for i=k, the inner loop will remove all productions A i fia m with m < i. Finally, with the elimination of self recursion, m in the A i fia m productions is forced to be > i. So, at the end of the algorithm, all derivations of the form A + i A m a will have m > i and therefore left recursion would not be possible. 25

26 Grammar Transformations 3. Left Factoring Left factoring helps transform a grammar for predictive parsing For example, if we have the two productions S fi if bthen Selse S if bthen S on seeing the input token if, we cannot immediately tell which production to choose to expand S. In general, if we have Afi b 1 b 2 and the input begins with a, we do not know (without looking further) which production to use to expand A. 26

27 Grammar Transformations 3. Left Factoring(Cont.) However, we may defer the decision by expanding A to aa. Then after seeing the input derived from a, we may expand A to b 1 or to b 2. That is, left-factored, the original productions become Afi A A fi b 1 b 2 27

28 Non-Context-Free Language Constructs Examples of non-context-free languages are: L 1 ={wcw w is of the form (a b)*} L 2 ={a n b m c n d m n 1 and m 1 } L 3 ={a n b n c n n 0 } Languages similar to these that are context free L 1 ={wcw R w is of the form (a b)*} (w R stands for w reversed) This language is generated by the grammar» Sfi asa bsb c L 2 ={a n b m c m d n n 1 and m 1 } This language is generated by the grammar» Sfi asd aad» Afi bac bc 28

29 Non-Context-Free Language Constructs (Cont.) L 2 ={a n b n c m d m n 1 and m 1 } This language is generated by the grammar» Sfi AB» Afi aab ab» Bfi cbd cd L 3 ={a n b n n 1} This language is generated by the grammar» Sfi asb ab This language is not definable by any regular expression 29

30 Non-Context-Free Language Constructs (Cont.) Suppose we could construct a DFSM D accepting L 3. D must have a finite number of states, say k. Consider the sequence of states s 0, s 1, s 2,, s k entered by D having read e, a, aa,, a k. Since D only has k states, two of the states in the sequence have to be equal. Say, s i s j (i j). From s i, a sequence of i bs leads to an accepting (final) state. Therefore, the same sequence of i bs will also lead to an accepting state from s j. Therefore D would accept a j b i which means that the language accepted by D is not identical to L 3. A contradiction. 30

31 Parsing The parsing problem is: Given string of tokens w, find a parse tree whose frontier is w. (Equivalently, find a derivation from w.) A parser for a grammar G reads a list of tokens and finds a parse tree if they form a sentence (or reports an error otherwise) Two classes of algorithms for parsing: Top-down Bottom-up 31

32 Parser generators A parser generator is a program that reads a grammar and produces a parser. The best known parser generator is yacc. Both produce bottom-up parsers. Most parser generators - including yacc - do not work for every cfg; they accept a restricted class of cfg s that can be parsed efficiently using the method employed by that parser generator. 32

33 Top-down parsing Starting from parse tree containing just S, build tree down toward input. Expand left-most nonterminal. Algorithm: (next slide) 33

34 Top-down parsing (cont.) Let input = a 1 a 2...a n current sentential form (csf) = S loop { suppose csf = t 1...t k Aa if t 1...t k a 1...a k, it s an error based on a k+1..., choose production A fib csf becomes t 1...t k ba } 34

35 Top-down parsing example Grammar: H: L fi E ; L E E fi a b Input: a;b Parse tree Sentential form Input E E a L L a;b L E;L a;b ; L L a;l a;b ; L 35

36 Top-down parsing example (cont.) Parse tree Sentential form Input L E ; L a E L E ; L a E b a;e a;b a;b a;b 36

37 LL(1) parsing Efficient form of top-down parsing. Use only first symbol of remaining input (a k+1 ) to choose next production. That is, employ a function M:S Nfi P in choose production step of algorithm. When this works, grammar is (usually) called LL(1). (More precise definition to follow.) 37

38 LL(1) examples Example 1: H: L fi E ; L E E fi a b Given input a;b, so next symbol is a. Which production to use? Can t tell. \ H not LL(1). 38

39 LL(1) examples Example 2: Exp fi Term Exp Exp fi $ + Exp Term fi id (Use $ for end-of-input symbol.) Grammar is LL(1): Exp and Term have only one production; Exp has two productions but only one is applicable at any time. 39

40 Nonrecursive predictive parsing It is possible to build a nonrecursive predictive parser by maintaining as stack explicitly, rather tan implicitly via recursive calls. The key problem during predictive parsing is that of determining the production to be applied for a non-terminal. 40

41 Nonrecursive predictive parsing Algorithm. Nonrecursive predictive parsing Set ip to point to the first symbol of w$. repeat Let X be the top of the stack symbol and a the symbol pointed to by ip if X is a terminal or $ then if X == a then else else error() // X is a nonterminal pop X from the stack and advance ip if M[X,a] == X Y 1 Y 2 Y k then pop X from the stack push Y k Y k-1,, Y 1 onto the stack with Y 1 on top (push nothing if Y 1 Y 2 Y k is ε ) until X == $ output the production X Y 1 Y 2 Y k else error() 41

42 LL(1) grammars No left recursion. A fi Aa : If this production is chosen, parse makes no progress. No common prefixes. A fi ab ag Can fix by left factoring : A fi aa A fi b g 42

43 LL(1) grammars (cont.) No ambiguity. Precise definition requires that production to choose be unique ( choose function M very hard to calculate otherwise). 43

44 Top-down Parsing Input tokens: <t0,t1,,t-i,...> L E0 E-n Start symbol and root of parse tree Input tokens: <t-i,...> From left to right, grow the parse tree downwards L E0 E-n... 44

45 Checking LL(1)-ness For any sequence of grammar symbols a, define set FIRST(a) S to be those tokens a such that a ab for some b. (Notation: write a *ab.) 45

46 Checking LL(1)-ness Define: Grammar G = (N,, P, S) is LL(1) if whenever there are two left-most derivations (in which the leftmost non-terminal is always expanded first ) S =>* waa => wba =>* wx S =>* waa => wga =>* wy Such that FIRST(x) = FIRST(y), it follows that b =g. In other words, given 1. A string waa in V* and 2. The first terminal symbol to be derived from Aa, say t There is at most one production that can be applied to A to yield a derivation of any terminal string beginning with wt. FIRST sets can often be calculated by inspection. 46

47 FIRST Sets Exp Term Exp Exp $ + Exp Term id (Use $ for end-of-input symbol.) FIRST(Term Exp ) = {id} FIRST($) = {$}, FIRST(+ Exp) = {+} implies FIRST($) FIRST(+ Exp) = {} FIRST(id) = {id} grammar is LL(1) 47

48 FIRST Sets H: L E ; L E E a b FIRST(E ; L) = {a,b} = FIRST(E) FIRST(E ; L) FIRST(E) {} H not LL(1). 48

49 How to compute FIRST Sets of Vocabulary Symbols Algorithm. Compute FIRST(X) for all grammar symbols X forall X V do FIRST(X)={} forall X Σ (X is a terminal) do FIRST(X)={X} forall productions X ε do FIRST(X) = FIRST(X) U {ε} repeat forall productions X Y 1 Y 2 Y k do forall i [1,k] do FIRST(X) = FIRST(X) U (FIRST(Y i ) - {ε}) if ε v FIRST(Y i ) then continue outer loop FIRST(X) = FIRST(X) U {ε} until no more terminals or ε are added to any FIRST set 49

50 How to compute FIRST Sets of Strings of Symbols FIRST(X 1 X 2 X n ) is the union of FIRST(X 1 ) and all FIRST(X i ) such that ε FIRST(X k ) for k=1,2,..,i-1 FIRST(X 1 X 2 X n ) contains ε iff ε FIRST(X k ) for k=1,2,..,n. 50

51 FIRST Sets do not Suffice Given the productions Afi T x Afi T y Tfi w Tfi e Tfi w should be applied when the next input token is w. Tfi e should be applied whenever the next terminal (the one pointed to by ip) is either x or y 51

52 FOLLOW Sets For any nonterminal X, define set FOLLOW(X) S to be those tokens a such that S *axab for some a and b. 52

53 How to compute the FOLLOW Set Algorithm. Compute FOLLOW(X) for all nonterminals X FOLLOW(S) ={$} forall productions A αbβ do FOLLOW(B)=Follow(B) U (FIRST(β) - {ε}) repeat forall productions A αb or A αbβ with ε FIRST(β) do FOLLOW(B) = FOLLOW(B) U FOLLOW(A) until all FOLLOW sets remain the same 53

54 Construction of a predictive parsing table Algorithm. Construction of a predictive parsing table M[:,:] = {} forall productions A α do forall a FIRST(α) do M[A,a] = M[A,a] U {A α } if ε FIRST(α) then forall b FOLLOW(A) do M[A,b] = M[A,b] U {A α } Make all empty entries of M be error 54

55 Another Definition of LL(1) Define: Grammar G is LL(1) if for every A N with productions A fi a 1... a n, FIRST(a i FOLLOW(A)) FIRST(a j FOLLOW(A) ) = for all i, j; 55

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