Question

What is terminal table?

(a) Contains all constants in the program

(b) Is a permanent table of decision rules in the form of patterns for matching with the uniform symbol table to discover syntactic structure

(c) Consist of a full or partial list of the token is as they appear in the program created by lexical analysis and used for syntax analysis and interpretation

(d) Is a permanent table which lists all keywords and special symbols of the language in symbolic form

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This question is from LR Parser in portion Bottom Up Parsing of Compiler

Answer 1

Right answer is (d) Is a permanent table which lists all keywords and special symbols of the language in symbolic form

The best explanation: A permanent database that has entry for each terminal symbols such as arithmetic operators, keywords, punctuation characters such as ‘;’, ‘,’etc Fields: Name of the symbol.