CSE340 Project 3: Type Checking
CSE340 Project 3: Type Checking
The goal of this project is to give you experience in Hindley-Milner type checking.
We begin by introducing the grammar of our language which is based on the previous project with additional constructs. Then we will discuss the semantics of our language and type checking rules. Finally we will go over a few examples and formalize the expected output.
1. Lexical Specification
Here is the list of tokens that your lexical analyzer should recognize (the new tokens are listed first):
INT = "int"
REAL = "real" BOOL = "bool" TRUE = "true" FALSE = "false" IF = "if"
WHILE = "while" SWITCH = "switch" CASE = "case" NOT = "!"
PLUS = "+"
MINUS = "-"
MULT = "*"
DIV = "/"
GREATER = ">"
LESS = "<"
GTEQ = ">="
LTEQ = "<="
NOTEQUAL = "<>"
LPAREN = "("
RPAREN = ")"
NUM = (pdigit digit*) + 0 REALNUM = NUM "." digit digit* PUBLIC = "public"
PRIVATE = "private" EQUAL = "="
COLON = ":"
COMMA = "," SEMICOLON = ";" LBRACE = "{"
RBRACE = "}"
ID = letter (letter + digit)*
2. Grammar
Here is the grammar for our input language:
1 program-> global_vars body
2 global_vars-> ε
3 global_vars-> var_decl_list
4 var_decl_list-> var_decl
5 var_decl_list-> var_decl var_decl_list
6 var_decl-> var_list COLON type_name SEMICOLON
7 var_list-> ID
8 var_list-> ID COMMA var_list
9 type_name-> INT
10 type_name-> REAL
11 type_name-> BOOL
12 body-> LBRACE stmt_list RBRACE
13 stmt_list-> stmt
14 stmt_list-> stmt stmt_list
15 stmt-> assignment_stmt
16 stmt -> if_stmt
17 stmt -> while_stmt
18 stmt -> switch_stmt
19 assignment_stmt -> ID EQUAL expression SEMICOLON
20 expression -> primary
21 expression -> binary_operator expression expression
22 expression -> unary_operator expression
23 unary_operator -> NOT
24 binary_operator -> PLUS | MINUS | MULT | DIV
25 binary_operator -> GREATER | LESS | GTEQ | LTEQ | EQUAL | NOTEQUAL
26 primary-> ID
27 primary-> NUM
28 primary-> REALNUM
29 primary-> TRUE
30 primary-> FALSE
31 if_stmt-> IF LPAREN expression RPAREN body
32 while_stmt-> WHILE LPAREN expression RPAREN body
33 switch_stmt-> SWITCH LPAREN expression RPAREN LBRACE case_list RBRACE
34 case_list-> case
35 case_list-> case case_list
36 case-> CASE NUM COLON body
3. Language Semantics 3.1. Types
The language has three built-in types: int , real and bool .
3.2. Variables
Programmers can declare variables either explicitly or implicitly. Explicit variables are declared in an var_list of a var_decl .
A variable is declared implicitly if it is not declared explicitly but it appears in the program body.
Example
Consider the following program written in our language:
1 x: int;
2 y: bool;
3 {
4 y = x;
5 z = 10;
6 w = * z 5;
7 }
This program has four variables declared: x , y , z , and w , with x and y explicitly declared and z and w implicitly declared.
3.3. Type System
Our language uses structural equivalence for checking type equivalence. Implicit types will be inferred from the usage (in a simplified form of Hindley-Milner type inference).
Here are all the type rules/constraints that your type checker will enforce (constraints are labeled for reference):
C1: The left hand side of an assignment should have the same type as its right hand side
C2: The operands of a binary operator ( GTEQ PLUS , MINUS , MULT , DIV , GREATER , LESS , ) , LTEQ , EQUAL and NOTEQUAL should have the same type (it can be any type)
C3: The operand of a unary operator ( NOT ) should be of type bool
C4: Condition of if and while statements should be of type bool
C5: The expression that follows the switch keyword in switch_stmt should be of type int
The type of expression binary_operator op1 op2 is the same as the type of op1 and op2 if operator is PLUS , MINUS , MULT or DIV . Note that op1 and op2 must have the same type due to C2
The type of expression binary_operator op1 op2 is bool if operator is GREATER , LESS , GTEQ , LTEQ , EQUAL or NOTEQUAL
The type of expression unary_operator op is bool NUM constants are of type int
REALNUM constants are of type real
true and false values are of type bool
4. Output
There are two scenarios:
There is a type error in the input program There are no type errors in the input program
4.1. Type Error
If any of the type constraints (listed in the Type System section above) is violated in the input program, then the output of your program should be:
TYPE MISMATCH <line_number> <constraint>
Where <line_number> is replaced with the line number that the violation occurs and <constraint> should be replaced with the label of the violated type constraint (possible values are C1 through C5). Note that you can assume that anywhere a violation can occur it will be on a single line.
4.2. No Type Error
If there are no type errors in the input program, then you should output type information for all variables in the input program in the order they appear in the program. There are two cases:
If the type of the variable is determined to be one of the builtin types, then output one line in the following format:
1 <variable>: <type> #
where <variable> should be replaced by the variable name and <type> should be replaced by the type of the variable.
If the type of the variable could not be determined to be one of the builtin types, then you need to list all variables that have the same type as the target variable and mark all of them as printed (so as to not print a separate entry for those later). You should output one line in the following format:
1 <variable_list>: ? #
where <variable_list> is a comma-separated list of variables that have the same type in the order they appear in the program.
5. Examples
Given the following:
1 a, b: int;
2 {
3 a = < b 2;
4 }
The output will be the following:
TYPE MISMATCH 3 C1
This is because the type of < b 2is bool, buta is of type int which is a violation of C1.
Given the following:
1 a, b: int;
2 {
3 a = + b 2.5;
4 }
The output will be the following:
TYPE MISMATCH 3 C2
This is because the type of b is int and the type of 2.5 is real which means in the expression + b 2.5 , C2 is violated
Given the following:
1 a, b: int;
2 {
3 a = b;
4 }
The output will be the following:
1 a: int #
2 b: int #
Given the following:
1 {
2 a = b;
3 }
The output will be the following:
a, b: ? #
6. Requirements
You should use C/C++, no other programming languages are allowed.
You should submit your code on the course submission website, no other submission forms will be accepted.
Also submit the output file obtained from the server
7. Evaluation
The submissions are evaluated based on the automated test cases on the submission website. Your grade will be proportional to the number of test cases passing. If your code does not compile on the submission website, you will not receive any points.
Here is the breakdown of points for tests in different categories:
Test cases with assignment statements (no if , while or switch ): 50 points Test cases with assignment, if and while statements (no switch ): 30 points Test cases with all types of statements: 20 points
