J. Kim, S. Oh, and Y. Lee (Korea)
compiler, error recovery, syntactic errors, LR parser
Error Recovery is a compilation process for dealing with syntactic errors so that parsing can continue through the syntactic errors. It aims at reporting as many errors as possible in the source programs. This processing is very important for the production of compilers. There have been many research results theoretically about error recovery, but they are not practical and have many restrictions to be applied. This paper proposes a simple but practical error recovery method for LR parser. The method provides largely two case solutions that complement each other. The first method, the panic method, deletes certain portions of input and adjusts state stack, and is applicable to almost all error situations. The second one, the modifying method, corrects parsing tables directly and deals with errors individually. The modifying method breaks down to insertion, deletion and replacement methods. Insertion method inserts a token when a programmer omits a comma or a semicolon. Deletion method removes an unnecessary token. Replacement method removes a token when errors occur and replaces it with the right token. The error recovery method proposed in this paper is not only applicable to a practical-scaled compiler but also to the experimental compilers that are implemented as term projects in Compiler classes. Using the suggested error recovery method, we have implemented a practical-scaled compiler[4,5] which translates a source program similar to a C program into a hypothetical stack machine code called GVM(Game Virtual Machine)[6].
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