Compiler Designing Phases

The compiler being a complex program is developed through several phases.  The task of compiler design can be divided very broadly into two sub-tasks.

I .  The analysis of a source program
II.  The synthesis of a object program


I .  The analysis of a source program

The anaysis task consists of 3 phases. They are

i)    Lexical analysis

ii)   Syntax analysis

iii)  Semantic analysis

II.  The synthesis of a object program 

The synthesis task consists of 2 phases. They are

i)    Code generation

ii)   Code optimization