Compiler 2014: Semantic specification

General Considerations

• continue and break must be in a loop
• In a.b, b must be a field of a's type
• Variable declarations are not allowed in loop conditions
• Void-type variables are not writable

Typing

• The type of the expression in a return statement must match the return type of the function
• The arguments of a function must match the arguments of a call of that function
• return statements are not mandatory, even in a non-void function
• In a[expr], a must be a pointer (or array), and expr must be int/char

Scoping

• Field names should be unique within a struct
• Function names should be unique
• Variables in the same level/scope should be unique
• Reading: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3793952/understanding-c-namespaces

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• I will discuss these topics in the next class. :) You can see the testcases to check more.
• Dynamic array should be considered as valid. To simplify the project, we will not test it. (Will be explained later.)
• Refer to gcc 4.7.1 for any semantic issues not mentioned above.