Top-Down Parsing

Top-down parsing

Top-down parsing is a strategy of analyzing unknown data relationships by hypothesizing general parse tree structures and then considering whether the known fundamental structures are compatible with the hypothesis. It uses a top-down expansion of formal grammar rules to attempt to find left-most derivations of an input-stream, and more sophisticated implementations can accommodate ambiguity and left recursion in polynomial time.

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CS 143 Compilers

Stanford University

Spring 2022

Combination of theoretical and practical perspectives on compiler design. This course emphasizes correctness over performance, providing a deep understanding of compiler structure and functioning.

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