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===========================================
Kaleidoscope: Implementing a Parser and AST
===========================================
.. contents::
:local:
Chapter 2 Introduction
======================
Welcome to Chapter 2 of the "`Implementing a language with
LLVM <index.html>`_" tutorial. This chapter shows you how to use the
lexer, built in `Chapter 1 <LangImpl1.html>`_, to build a full
`parser <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing>`_ for our Kaleidoscope
language. Once we have a parser, we'll define and build an `Abstract
Syntax Tree <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree>`_ (AST).
The parser we will build uses a combination of `Recursive Descent
Parsing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_descent_parser>`_ and
`Operator-Precedence
Parsing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator-precedence_parser>`_ to
parse the Kaleidoscope language (the latter for binary expressions and
the former for everything else). Before we get to parsing though, lets
talk about the output of the parser: the Abstract Syntax Tree.
The Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)
==============================
The AST for a program captures its behavior in such a way that it is
easy for later stages of the compiler (e.g. code generation) to
interpret. We basically want one object for each construct in the
language, and the AST should closely model the language. In
Kaleidoscope, we have expressions, a prototype, and a function object.
We'll start with expressions first:
.. code-block:: c++
/// ExprAST - Base class for all expression nodes.
class ExprAST {
public:
virtual ~ExprAST() {}
};
/// NumberExprAST - Expression class for numeric literals like "1.0".
class NumberExprAST : public ExprAST {
double Val;
public:
NumberExprAST(double val) : Val(val) {}
};
The code above shows the definition of the base ExprAST class and one
subclass which we use for numeric literals. The important thing to note
about this code is that the NumberExprAST class captures the numeric
value of the literal as an instance variable. This allows later phases
of the compiler to know what the stored numeric value is.
Right now we only create the AST, so there are no useful accessor
methods on them. It would be very easy to add a virtual method to pretty
print the code, for example. Here are the other expression AST node
definitions that we'll use in the basic form of the Kaleidoscope
language:
.. code-block:: c++
/// VariableExprAST - Expression class for referencing a variable, like "a".
class VariableExprAST : public ExprAST {
std::string Name;
public:
VariableExprAST(const std::string &name) : Name(name) {}
};
/// BinaryExprAST - Expression class for a binary operator.
class BinaryExprAST : public ExprAST {
char Op;
ExprAST *LHS, *RHS;
public:
BinaryExprAST(char op, ExprAST *lhs, ExprAST *rhs)
: Op(op), LHS(lhs), RHS(rhs) {}
};
/// CallExprAST - Expression class for function calls.
class CallExprAST : public ExprAST {
std::string Callee;
std::vector<ExprAST*> Args;
public:
CallExprAST(const std::string &callee, std::vector<ExprAST*> &args)
: Callee(callee), Args(args) {}
};
This is all (intentionally) rather straight-forward: variables capture
the variable name, binary operators capture their opcode (e.g. '+'), and
calls capture a function name as well as a list of any argument
expressions. One thing that is nice about our AST is that it captures
the language features without talking about the syntax of the language.
Note that there is no discussion about precedence of binary operators,
lexical structure, etc.
For our basic language, these are all of the expression nodes we'll
define. Because it doesn't have conditional control flow, it isn't
Turing-complete; we'll fix that in a later installment. The two things
we need next are a way to talk about the interface to a function, and a
way to talk about functions themselves:
.. code-block:: c++
/// PrototypeAST - This class represents the "prototype" for a function,
/// which captures its name, and its argument names (thus implicitly the number
/// of arguments the function takes).
class PrototypeAST {
std::string Name;
std::vector<std::string> Args;
public:
PrototypeAST(const std::string &name, const std::vector<std::string> &args)
: Name(name), Args(args) {}
};
/// FunctionAST - This class represents a function definition itself.
class FunctionAST {
PrototypeAST *Proto;
ExprAST *Body;
public:
FunctionAST(PrototypeAST *proto, ExprAST *body)
: Proto(proto), Body(body) {}
};
In Kaleidoscope, functions are typed with just a count of their
arguments. Since all values are double precision floating point, the
type of each argument doesn't need to be stored anywhere. In a more
aggressive and realistic language, the "ExprAST" class would probably
have a type field.
With this scaffolding, we can now talk about parsing expressions and
function bodies in Kaleidoscope.
Parser Basics
=============
Now that we have an AST to build, we need to define the parser code to
build it. The idea here is that we want to parse something like "x+y"
(which is returned as three tokens by the lexer) into an AST that could
be generated with calls like this:
.. code-block:: c++
ExprAST *X = new VariableExprAST("x");
ExprAST *Y = new VariableExprAST("y");
ExprAST *Result = new BinaryExprAST('+', X, Y);
In order to do this, we'll start by defining some basic helper routines:
.. code-block:: c++
/// CurTok/getNextToken - Provide a simple token buffer. CurTok is the current
/// token the parser is looking at. getNextToken reads another token from the
/// lexer and updates CurTok with its results.
static int CurTok;
static int getNextToken() {
return CurTok = gettok();
}
This implements a simple token buffer around the lexer. This allows us
to look one token ahead at what the lexer is returning. Every function
in our parser will assume that CurTok is the current token that needs to
be parsed.
.. code-block:: c++
/// Error* - These are little helper functions for error handling.
ExprAST *Error(const char *Str) { fprintf(stderr, "Error: %s\n", Str);return 0;}
PrototypeAST *ErrorP(const char *Str) { Error(Str); return 0; }
FunctionAST *ErrorF(const char *Str) { Error(Str); return 0; }
The ``Error`` routines are simple helper routines that our parser will
use to handle errors. The error recovery in our parser will not be the
best and is not particular user-friendly, but it will be enough for our
tutorial. These routines make it easier to handle errors in routines
that have various return types: they always return null.
With these basic helper functions, we can implement the first piece of
our grammar: numeric literals.
Basic Expression Parsing
========================
We start with numeric literals, because they are the simplest to
process. For each production in our grammar, we'll define a function
which parses that production. For numeric literals, we have:
.. code-block:: c++
/// numberexpr ::= number
static ExprAST *ParseNumberExpr() {
ExprAST *Result = new NumberExprAST(NumVal);
getNextToken(); // consume the number
return Result;
}
This routine is very simple: it expects to be called when the current
token is a ``tok_number`` token. It takes the current number value,
creates a ``NumberExprAST`` node, advances the lexer to the next token,
and finally returns.
There are some interesting aspects to this. The most important one is
that this routine eats all of the tokens that correspond to the
production and returns the lexer buffer with the next token (which is
not part of the grammar production) ready to go. This is a fairly
standard way to go for recursive descent parsers. For a better example,
the parenthesis operator is defined like this:
.. code-block:: c++
/// parenexpr ::= '(' expression ')'
static ExprAST *ParseParenExpr() {
getNextToken(); // eat (.
ExprAST *V = ParseExpression();
if (!V) return 0;
if (CurTok != ')')
return Error("expected ')'");
getNextToken(); // eat ).
return V;
}
This function illustrates a number of interesting things about the
parser:
1) It shows how we use the Error routines. When called, this function
expects that the current token is a '(' token, but after parsing the
subexpression, it is possible that there is no ')' waiting. For example,
if the user types in "(4 x" instead of "(4)", the parser should emit an
error. Because errors can occur, the parser needs a way to indicate that
they happened: in our parser, we return null on an error.
2) Another interesting aspect of this function is that it uses recursion
by calling ``ParseExpression`` (we will soon see that
``ParseExpression`` can call ``ParseParenExpr``). This is powerful
because it allows us to handle recursive grammars, and keeps each
production very simple. Note that parentheses do not cause construction
of AST nodes themselves. While we could do it this way, the most
important role of parentheses are to guide the parser and provide
grouping. Once the parser constructs the AST, parentheses are not
needed.
The next simple production is for handling variable references and
function calls:
.. code-block:: c++
/// identifierexpr
/// ::= identifier
/// ::= identifier '(' expression* ')'
static ExprAST *ParseIdentifierExpr() {
std::string IdName = IdentifierStr;
getNextToken(); // eat identifier.
if (CurTok != '(') // Simple variable ref.
return new VariableExprAST(IdName);
// Call.
getNextToken(); // eat (
std::vector<ExprAST*> Args;
if (CurTok != ')') {
while (1) {
ExprAST *Arg = ParseExpression();
if (!Arg) return 0;
Args.push_back(Arg);
if (CurTok == ')') break;
if (CurTok != ',')
return Error("Expected ')' or ',' in argument list");
getNextToken();
}
}
// Eat the ')'.
getNextToken();
return new CallExprAST(IdName, Args);
}
This routine follows the same style as the other routines. (It expects
to be called if the current token is a ``tok_identifier`` token). It
also has recursion and error handling. One interesting aspect of this is
that it uses *look-ahead* to determine if the current identifier is a
stand alone variable reference or if it is a function call expression.
It handles this by checking to see if the token after the identifier is
a '(' token, constructing either a ``VariableExprAST`` or
``CallExprAST`` node as appropriate.
Now that we have all of our simple expression-parsing logic in place, we
can define a helper function to wrap it together into one entry point.
We call this class of expressions "primary" expressions, for reasons
that will become more clear `later in the
tutorial <LangImpl6.html#unary>`_. In order to parse an arbitrary
primary expression, we need to determine what sort of expression it is:
.. code-block:: c++
/// primary
/// ::= identifierexpr
/// ::= numberexpr
/// ::= parenexpr
static ExprAST *ParsePrimary() {
switch (CurTok) {
default: return Error("unknown token when expecting an expression");
case tok_identifier: return ParseIdentifierExpr();
case tok_number: return ParseNumberExpr();
case '(': return ParseParenExpr();
}
}
Now that you see the definition of this function, it is more obvious why
we can assume the state of CurTok in the various functions. This uses
look-ahead to determine which sort of expression is being inspected, and
then parses it with a function call.
Now that basic expressions are handled, we need to handle binary
expressions. They are a bit more complex.
Binary Expression Parsing
=========================
Binary expressions are significantly harder to parse because they are
often ambiguous. For example, when given the string "x+y\*z", the parser
can choose to parse it as either "(x+y)\*z" or "x+(y\*z)". With common
definitions from mathematics, we expect the later parse, because "\*"
(multiplication) has higher *precedence* than "+" (addition).
There are many ways to handle this, but an elegant and efficient way is
to use `Operator-Precedence
Parsing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator-precedence_parser>`_.
This parsing technique uses the precedence of binary operators to guide
recursion. To start with, we need a table of precedences:
.. code-block:: c++
/// BinopPrecedence - This holds the precedence for each binary operator that is
/// defined.
static std::map<char, int> BinopPrecedence;
/// GetTokPrecedence - Get the precedence of the pending binary operator token.
static int GetTokPrecedence() {
if (!isascii(CurTok))
return -1;
// Make sure it's a declared binop.
int TokPrec = BinopPrecedence[CurTok];
if (TokPrec <= 0) return -1;
return TokPrec;
}
int main() {
// Install standard binary operators.
// 1 is lowest precedence.
BinopPrecedence['<'] = 10;
BinopPrecedence['+'] = 20;
BinopPrecedence['-'] = 20;
BinopPrecedence['*'] = 40; // highest.
...
}
For the basic form of Kaleidoscope, we will only support 4 binary
operators (this can obviously be extended by you, our brave and intrepid
reader). The ``GetTokPrecedence`` function returns the precedence for
the current token, or -1 if the token is not a binary operator. Having a
map makes it easy to add new operators and makes it clear that the
algorithm doesn't depend on the specific operators involved, but it
would be easy enough to eliminate the map and do the comparisons in the
``GetTokPrecedence`` function. (Or just use a fixed-size array).
With the helper above defined, we can now start parsing binary
expressions. The basic idea of operator precedence parsing is to break
down an expression with potentially ambiguous binary operators into
pieces. Consider ,for example, the expression "a+b+(c+d)\*e\*f+g".
Operator precedence parsing considers this as a stream of primary
expressions separated by binary operators. As such, it will first parse
the leading primary expression "a", then it will see the pairs [+, b]
[+, (c+d)] [\*, e] [\*, f] and [+, g]. Note that because parentheses are
primary expressions, the binary expression parser doesn't need to worry
about nested subexpressions like (c+d) at all.
To start, an expression is a primary expression potentially followed by
a sequence of [binop,primaryexpr] pairs:
.. code-block:: c++
/// expression
/// ::= primary binoprhs
///
static ExprAST *ParseExpression() {
ExprAST *LHS = ParsePrimary();
if (!LHS) return 0;
return ParseBinOpRHS(0, LHS);
}
``ParseBinOpRHS`` is the function that parses the sequence of pairs for
us. It takes a precedence and a pointer to an expression for the part
that has been parsed so far. Note that "x" is a perfectly valid
expression: As such, "binoprhs" is allowed to be empty, in which case it
returns the expression that is passed into it. In our example above, the
code passes the expression for "a" into ``ParseBinOpRHS`` and the
current token is "+".
The precedence value passed into ``ParseBinOpRHS`` indicates the
*minimal operator precedence* that the function is allowed to eat. For
example, if the current pair stream is [+, x] and ``ParseBinOpRHS`` is
passed in a precedence of 40, it will not consume any tokens (because
the precedence of '+' is only 20). With this in mind, ``ParseBinOpRHS``
starts with:
.. code-block:: c++
/// binoprhs
/// ::= ('+' primary)*
static ExprAST *ParseBinOpRHS(int ExprPrec, ExprAST *LHS) {
// If this is a binop, find its precedence.
while (1) {
int TokPrec = GetTokPrecedence();
// If this is a binop that binds at least as tightly as the current binop,
// consume it, otherwise we are done.
if (TokPrec < ExprPrec)
return LHS;
This code gets the precedence of the current token and checks to see if
if is too low. Because we defined invalid tokens to have a precedence of
-1, this check implicitly knows that the pair-stream ends when the token
stream runs out of binary operators. If this check succeeds, we know
that the token is a binary operator and that it will be included in this
expression:
.. code-block:: c++
// Okay, we know this is a binop.
int BinOp = CurTok;
getNextToken(); // eat binop
// Parse the primary expression after the binary operator.
ExprAST *RHS = ParsePrimary();
if (!RHS) return 0;
As such, this code eats (and remembers) the binary operator and then
parses the primary expression that follows. This builds up the whole
pair, the first of which is [+, b] for the running example.
Now that we parsed the left-hand side of an expression and one pair of
the RHS sequence, we have to decide which way the expression associates.
In particular, we could have "(a+b) binop unparsed" or "a + (b binop
unparsed)". To determine this, we look ahead at "binop" to determine its
precedence and compare it to BinOp's precedence (which is '+' in this
case):
.. code-block:: c++
// If BinOp binds less tightly with RHS than the operator after RHS, let
// the pending operator take RHS as its LHS.
int NextPrec = GetTokPrecedence();
if (TokPrec < NextPrec) {
If the precedence of the binop to the right of "RHS" is lower or equal
to the precedence of our current operator, then we know that the
parentheses associate as "(a+b) binop ...". In our example, the current
operator is "+" and the next operator is "+", we know that they have the
same precedence. In this case we'll create the AST node for "a+b", and
then continue parsing:
.. code-block:: c++
... if body omitted ...
}
// Merge LHS/RHS.
LHS = new BinaryExprAST(BinOp, LHS, RHS);
} // loop around to the top of the while loop.
}
In our example above, this will turn "a+b+" into "(a+b)" and execute the
next iteration of the loop, with "+" as the current token. The code
above will eat, remember, and parse "(c+d)" as the primary expression,
which makes the current pair equal to [+, (c+d)]. It will then evaluate
the 'if' conditional above with "\*" as the binop to the right of the
primary. In this case, the precedence of "\*" is higher than the
precedence of "+" so the if condition will be entered.
The critical question left here is "how can the if condition parse the
right hand side in full"? In particular, to build the AST correctly for
our example, it needs to get all of "(c+d)\*e\*f" as the RHS expression
variable. The code to do this is surprisingly simple (code from the
above two blocks duplicated for context):
.. code-block:: c++
// If BinOp binds less tightly with RHS than the operator after RHS, let
// the pending operator take RHS as its LHS.
int NextPrec = GetTokPrecedence();
if (TokPrec < NextPrec) {
RHS = ParseBinOpRHS(TokPrec+1, RHS);
if (RHS == 0) return 0;
}
// Merge LHS/RHS.
LHS = new BinaryExprAST(BinOp, LHS, RHS);
} // loop around to the top of the while loop.
}
At this point, we know that the binary operator to the RHS of our
primary has higher precedence than the binop we are currently parsing.
As such, we know that any sequence of pairs whose operators are all
higher precedence than "+" should be parsed together and returned as
"RHS". To do this, we recursively invoke the ``ParseBinOpRHS`` function
specifying "TokPrec+1" as the minimum precedence required for it to
continue. In our example above, this will cause it to return the AST
node for "(c+d)\*e\*f" as RHS, which is then set as the RHS of the '+'
expression.
Finally, on the next iteration of the while loop, the "+g" piece is
parsed and added to the AST. With this little bit of code (14
non-trivial lines), we correctly handle fully general binary expression
parsing in a very elegant way. This was a whirlwind tour of this code,
and it is somewhat subtle. I recommend running through it with a few
tough examples to see how it works.
This wraps up handling of expressions. At this point, we can point the
parser at an arbitrary token stream and build an expression from it,
stopping at the first token that is not part of the expression. Next up
we need to handle function definitions, etc.
Parsing the Rest
================
The next thing missing is handling of function prototypes. In
Kaleidoscope, these are used both for 'extern' function declarations as
well as function body definitions. The code to do this is
straight-forward and not very interesting (once you've survived
expressions):
.. code-block:: c++
/// prototype
/// ::= id '(' id* ')'
static PrototypeAST *ParsePrototype() {
if (CurTok != tok_identifier)
return ErrorP("Expected function name in prototype");
std::string FnName = IdentifierStr;
getNextToken();
if (CurTok != '(')
return ErrorP("Expected '(' in prototype");
// Read the list of argument names.
std::vector<std::string> ArgNames;
while (getNextToken() == tok_identifier)
ArgNames.push_back(IdentifierStr);
if (CurTok != ')')
return ErrorP("Expected ')' in prototype");
// success.
getNextToken(); // eat ')'.
return new PrototypeAST(FnName, ArgNames);
}
Given this, a function definition is very simple, just a prototype plus
an expression to implement the body:
.. code-block:: c++
/// definition ::= 'def' prototype expression
static FunctionAST *ParseDefinition() {
getNextToken(); // eat def.
PrototypeAST *Proto = ParsePrototype();
if (Proto == 0) return 0;
if (ExprAST *E = ParseExpression())
return new FunctionAST(Proto, E);
return 0;
}
In addition, we support 'extern' to declare functions like 'sin' and
'cos' as well as to support forward declaration of user functions. These
'extern's are just prototypes with no body:
.. code-block:: c++
/// external ::= 'extern' prototype
static PrototypeAST *ParseExtern() {
getNextToken(); // eat extern.
return ParsePrototype();
}
Finally, we'll also let the user type in arbitrary top-level expressions
and evaluate them on the fly. We will handle this by defining anonymous
nullary (zero argument) functions for them:
.. code-block:: c++
/// toplevelexpr ::= expression
static FunctionAST *ParseTopLevelExpr() {
if (ExprAST *E = ParseExpression()) {
// Make an anonymous proto.
PrototypeAST *Proto = new PrototypeAST("", std::vector<std::string>());
return new FunctionAST(Proto, E);
}
return 0;
}
Now that we have all the pieces, let's build a little driver that will
let us actually *execute* this code we've built!
The Driver
==========
The driver for this simply invokes all of the parsing pieces with a
top-level dispatch loop. There isn't much interesting here, so I'll just
include the top-level loop. See `below <#code>`_ for full code in the
"Top-Level Parsing" section.
.. code-block:: c++
/// top ::= definition | external | expression | ';'
static void MainLoop() {
while (1) {
fprintf(stderr, "ready> ");
switch (CurTok) {
case tok_eof: return;
case ';': getNextToken(); break; // ignore top-level semicolons.
case tok_def: HandleDefinition(); break;
case tok_extern: HandleExtern(); break;
default: HandleTopLevelExpression(); break;
}
}
}
The most interesting part of this is that we ignore top-level
semicolons. Why is this, you ask? The basic reason is that if you type
"4 + 5" at the command line, the parser doesn't know whether that is the
end of what you will type or not. For example, on the next line you
could type "def foo..." in which case 4+5 is the end of a top-level
expression. Alternatively you could type "\* 6", which would continue
the expression. Having top-level semicolons allows you to type "4+5;",
and the parser will know you are done.
Conclusions
===========
With just under 400 lines of commented code (240 lines of non-comment,
non-blank code), we fully defined our minimal language, including a
lexer, parser, and AST builder. With this done, the executable will
validate Kaleidoscope code and tell us if it is grammatically invalid.
For example, here is a sample interaction:
.. code-block:: bash
$ ./a.out
ready> def foo(x y) x+foo(y, 4.0);
Parsed a function definition.
ready> def foo(x y) x+y y;
Parsed a function definition.
Parsed a top-level expr
ready> def foo(x y) x+y );
Parsed a function definition.
Error: unknown token when expecting an expression
ready> extern sin(a);
ready> Parsed an extern
ready> ^D
$
There is a lot of room for extension here. You can define new AST nodes,
extend the language in many ways, etc. In the `next
installment <LangImpl3.html>`_, we will describe how to generate LLVM
Intermediate Representation (IR) from the AST.
Full Code Listing
=================
Here is the complete code listing for this and the previous chapter.
Note that it is fully self-contained: you don't need LLVM or any
external libraries at all for this. (Besides the C and C++ standard
libraries, of course.) To build this, just compile with:
.. code-block:: bash
# Compile
clang++ -g -O3 toy.cpp
# Run
./a.out
Here is the code:
.. literalinclude:: ../../examples/Kaleidoscope/Chapter2/toy.cpp
:language: c++
`Next: Implementing Code Generation to LLVM IR <LangImpl3.html>`_
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