Compiler Design - Practice Set 4

The document discusses the stages of the compilation process, which include lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and code generation. Lexical analysis involves taking a source program as input and producing a stream of tokens as output. Parsing, also known as syntax analysis, is the process of analyzing a string of symbols according to the rules of grammar. Compilers are designed to be re-enterable for user convenience. A logical error in a program, such as writing code to multiply instead of divide, cannot be detected by a compiler or interpreter.

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Lexical Analysis

1. What constitutes the stages of the compilation process?

a) Feasibility study, system, design, and testing
b) Implementation and documentation
c) Lexical analysis, syntax, Analysis and code generation
d) None of the mentioned
Answer: c
Explanation: As defined in the compilation process.

2. The lexical analyzer takes _________ as input and produces a stream of _______ as output.
a) Source program, tokens
b) Token, source program
c) Either of the two
d) None of the mentioned
Answer: a
Explanation: As per the definition of Lexical Analyser which states that lexical analysis is the process of
converting a sequence of characters into tokens.

3. Parsing is also known as ________

a) Lexical Analysis
b) Syntax Analysis
c) Semantic Analysis
d) Code Generation
Answer: b
Explanation: Parsing or syntactic analysis is the process of analysing a string of symbols and conforming
to the rules of grammar.

4. A compiler program written in a high level language is called ________

a) Source Program
b) Object Program
c) Machine Language Program
d) None of the mentioned
Answer: a
Explanation: The input that we give in high level language is also known as the source language.

5. System program such a compiler are designed so that they are ________
a) Re-enterable
b) Non-Usable
c) Serially usable
d) None of the mentioned
Answer: a
Explanation: For the convince of the user compilers are made re-enterable.

6. Which of the following is not a feature of compiler?

a) Scan the entire program first and translate into machine code
b) To remove syntax errors
c) Slow for debugging
d) Execution time is more
Answer: d
Explanation: The objective of the compiler is clearly not to increase the execution time of the program.

7. A system program that brings together separately compiled modules of a program into a form
language that is suitable for execution.
a) Assembler
b) Linking loader
c) Cross compiler
d) None of the mentioned
Answer: b
Explanation: A loader which brings together the functions of a relocating loader with the ability to
combine a number of program segments that have been independently compiled into an executable
program.

8. A programmer by mistakes writes a program to multiply two numbers instead of dividing them, how
can this error be detected?
a) Compiler
b) Interpreter
c) Compiler or interpreter
d) None of the mentioned
Answer: d
Explanation: This is a logical error that can’t be detected by any compiler or interpreter.