Aptitude | GATE CS 1998 | Question 27

Type checking is normally done during
(A) Lexical analysis
(B) Syntax analysis
(C) Syntax directed translation
(D) Code optimization


Answer: (C)

Explanation: Syntax-Directed Translation is used in following cases

1. Conversion of infix to Postfix
2. Calculation of infix expression
3. For creating a Acyclic graph
4. Type Checking
5. Conversion of Binary number to Decimal
6. Counting the numbers of bits (0 or 1 ) in a binary number
7. Creation of syntax tree
8. To generate Intermediate code
9. Storing the data into Symbol table

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