symbol table

English

Noun

symbol table (plural symbol tables)

1. (computing) A data structure where symbols (identifiers) are associated with information relating to their declaration or appearance in the source code.
   • 2004, Keith D. Cooper, Linda Torczon, Engineering a Compiler, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 239:

     This central repository, called a symbol table, becomes an integral part of the compiler's IR. The symbol table localizes information derived from potentially distant parts of the source code. It makes such information easily and efficiently available, and it simplifies the design and implementation of any code that must refer to information about variables derived earlier in compilation.

Translations

data structure containing identifiers

• German: Symboltabelle f

Further reading

• symbol table on Wikipedia.Wikipedia