Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology,Gazipur

Department of Computer Science and Technology

CSE 3rd Year 2nd Semester

Course No: CSE-3224

Course Name: Compiler Design Sessional

Assignment No: 02

Experiment Name: Write a program and check grammar is ambiguous or not.

Submission Date: 05/01/2021

SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY
Name: Md. Niaz Morshed Ganesh chandro ray
Asst. Professor, Dept. of CSE, DUET ID: 164030

Name: Md. Zakir Hossain

Asst. Professor, Dept. of CSE, DUET
Objective: Implement and check the grammar is ambiguous or not.
Theory: Ambiguous Grammar: A CFG is said to ambiguous if there exists more than one
derivation tree for the given input string i.e., more than one LeftMost Derivation Tree (LMDT)
or RightMost Derivation Tree (RMDT).

Definition: G = (V,T,P,S) is a CFG is said to be ambiguous if and only if there exist a

string in T* that has more than on parse tree.
where V is a finite set of variables.
T is a finite set of terminals.
P is a finite set of productions of the form, A -> α, where A is a variable and α ∈ (V ∪ T)* S is
a designated variable called the start symbol.

For Example:
Let us consider this grammar : E -> E+E|id
Input string : id+id+id

Leftmost Derivation:

E->E+E E->E+E
E->id +E E->E+E+E
E->id+E+E E->id+E+E
E->id+id+E
E->id+id+E
E->id+id+id
E->id+id+id
We can create 2 parse tree from this grammar to obtain a string id+id+id :
The following are the 2 parse trees generated by left most derivation:

Both the above parse trees are derived from same grammar rules but both parse trees are
different. Hence the grammar is ambiguous.

Conclusion: Above the lab experiment, implement the grammar is ambiguous or not.