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Chapter 8. Error Reporting and Recovery > Compiler Error Recovery

8.5. Compiler Error Recovery

In the previous section we described the mechanisms bison provides for error recovery. In this section we discuss external recovery mechanisms provided by the programmer.

Error recovery depends upon semantic knowledge of the grammar rather than just syntactic knowledge. This greatly complicates complex recovery within the grammar.


  

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