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'''Semantic analysis''', alsoor '''context sensitive analysis''', is a process in [[compiler]] construction, usually after [[parsing]], to gather necessary semantic information from the [[source code]].<ref name="WilhelmSeidl2013">{{cite book|author1=Reinhard Wilhelm|author2=Helmut Seidl|author3=Sebastian Hack|title=Compiler Design: Syntactic and Semantic Analysis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NTIkJAuytiwC&q=%22semantic+analysis%22|date=13 May 2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-17540-4}}</ref> It usually includes [[type checking]], or makes sure a variable is declared before use which is impossible to describe in the [[Extendedextended Backus–Naur Formform]] and thus not easily detected during parsing.

== See also ==

* [[Attribute grammar]]

* [[Context-sensitive language]]

* [[Semantic analysis (computer science)]]

==References==

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[[Category:Compiler construction]]

[[Category:Program analysis]]

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