Saturday, 7 September 2013

Syntax and Semantic Errors

Syntax and semantic errors typically occur in the source program. They identify actual programming errors. When one of these errors is encountered, the compiler attempts to recover from the error and continue processing the source file. As more errors are encountered, the compiler outputs additional error messages. However, no object file is produced.

Syntax and semantic errors produce a message in the list file. These error messages are in the following format: