to parse the source program into the basic elements or tokens of the language.
to build a literal table and an identifier table
to recognize the major constructs of the language and to call the appropriate action routines that will generate the intermediate form or matrix for these constructs.
consists of those addresses that may be generated by a processor during execution of a computation.
is a method of memory allocation by which the program is subdivided into equal portions, or pages and core is subdivided into equal portions or blocks.
allows multiple programs to reside in separate areas of core at the time.