Which of the following is a function of the semantic analysis phase of compilation?
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Correct answer: A. Type conversion
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Semantic analysis does type checking and inserts type conversions (coercions). Tokenisation is lexical analysis; loop optimisation and data-flow analysis belong to optimisation.More Theory of Computation and Compilers questions
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