A description of dynamic behavior for compilers based on object oriented modeling

The syntax-directed translation technique based on attribute grammar has been the most commonly used method for compiler development. However, as a design of a compiler with syntax-directed translation depends on the parsing methods, the conceptual structure of the compiler does not correspond well to the actual modules that implement its conceptual structure. As a result, the compiler may have the structure with less modularity. Moreover, as the semantics in modern high-level programming languages become more complicated, compilers are also getting complicated. The object-oriented modeling technique has been introduced to compiler development to improve the modularity of compilers. An analysis proposes a method to describe dynamic behavior of the object model for the compilers. The analysis shows that this is a feasible method for improving modularity of compilers for complex high-level programming languages.