International Research Journal of Education and Technology

Compiler and its error are the two fundamentals which bridges the gap between a programmer and the machine to work well on C. In this paper, we have shown about compiler and its error messages. We have also discussed about many recovery mechanisms in a compiler. As programming languages acts like an interface between a programmer and the machine, it should not be subjected to any error. If it supposed to possess error, then the code will not attain efficiency, meaning and quality. So some means of gap has to be bridged between the machine and to the user. This is where a compiler comes in. Here the task of a compiler is to compile the program or instruction which is written in a particular source language and convert it into a target language via various phases available in the compiler. Meanwhile, the tasks of error handling process are to detect each error, report it to the user, and possibly make some repair to allow processing to continue. Finally, the purpose of this paper is to provide an entire knowledge about the Compiler and its error briefly.

Keywords: Compilers; Errors; Target language.