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- A bottom-up parser builds a derivation from the terminal symbols,
working toward the start symbol.
- It consists of a stack and an input .
- Four actions:
- shift , which pushes the next token onto the stack
- reduce , removes Y1, ...,Yk, which are the
right-hand side of some production X = Y1 ... Yk.
From the top of the stack and replaces them by X.
- accept , ends the parser with success.
- error , ends the parser with an error message.
- Question: How does the parser know, which action to invoke.
Christoph Zenger
4/6/2000