At 05:08 PM 7/6/00 +1000, Jan Mikkelsen wrote:

>
>What do the various intermediate forms between parsers and code generators
>look like in Interbase? Is there a standardised intermediate
>representation, or does every compiler do its own thing?
>
>

Everything generates a syntax tree that is resolved and rebuilt during
a semantic analysis phase (the mantra of every programmer should be
"parsers parse"). The semantic analysis phase varies widely.

Jim Starkey