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Declarations

When we encounter declarations, we need to lay out storage for the declared variables.

For every local name in a procedure, we create a ST(Symbol Table) entry containing:

1. The type of the name
2. How much storage the name requires

The production:

A suitable transition scheme for declarations would be:

Production rule	Semantic action
D → integer, id	ENTER (id.PLACE, integer)   D.ATTR = integer
D → real, id	ENTER (id.PLACE, real)   D.ATTR = real
D → D1, id	ENTER (id.PLACE, D1.ATTR)   D.ATTR = D1.ATTR

ENTER is used to make the entry into symbol table and ATTR is used to trace the data type.