Homework 4

Questions

Homework assignments must be done individually. Collaboration on homework assignments is not allowed.

The C language allows you to define new names for existing types using typedefs. Here is some example code that uses typedefs:

typedef int money;
int x;
money y;
typedef money dollars;
dollars z;
x = 10;
y = x;    // OK because x and y are of type int
z = y;    // OK because y and z are of type int

The first typedef defines money to be a synonym for int. Any declaration that follows this typedef can use money instead of int. The second typedef defines dollars to be a synonym for money, which makes it a synonym for int. Any declaration that follows this typedef can use dollars instead of int.

Typedefs can also be used with struct types:

struct Pair {
    int x;
    int y;
};
typedef struct Pair Point;
Point p;

A typedef can occur anywhere that a variable declaration (local or global) can occur. The usual C scoping rules apply to the names in typedefs. Note that typedef int money; is considered to be a declaration of the name money and that both money x; and typedef money dollars; are considered to be uses of the name money.

Question 1:

Assume that the following productions have been added to the grammar for the cflat language:

decl → typedef
typedef → TYPEDEF type ID SEMICOLON

What other productions need to be changed and/or added to the cflat grammar to allow typedefs?

Question 2:

Now consider the name-analysis phase of the compiler. Note that, in addition to the usual errors for multiply-defined names and for uses of undefined names, the name analyzer must enforce the following rules:

Answer each of the following questions:

  1. What information should be stored with each name in the symbol table?

  2. What should be done to process a typedef: typedef T xxx;?

  3. What should be done to process a declaration of a variable, function, or parameter named xxx and declared to be of type T?

  4. What should be done to process the use of a name xxx in a statement?

  5. Illustrate your answer by showing the entries that would be in the symbol table after processing the following declarations:

struct Book {
    int price;
    int quantity;
};
typedef struct Book novel;
novel nemesis;
typedef int measurement;
measurement height;
typedef measurement weight;
weight w;
int c;