Translating Statements and Declarations

Chapters 5 and 6 show the tree-walking mechanism to its best advantage, working on the translation of source program constructs whose efficient implementation is crucial to the efficiency of the object program. Code fragments for statements are rarely so crucial, particularly when the expressions which they contain are efficiently translated. This chapter therefore shows example procedures which translate statements by linking together the code fragments discussed in chapters 5, 6 and 9 and in section III.