Question

What does a Syntactic Analyser do?

(a) Maintain Symbol Table

(b) Collect type of information

(c) Create parse tree

(d) None of the mentioned

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The origin of the question is Syntax Analyser topic in section Contextfree Grammar and Syntax Analysis of Compiler

Answer 1

The correct option is (c) Create parse tree

For explanation: Syntax analyzer will just create a parse tree. Semantic Analyzer checks the meaning of the string parsed.