Analyse Statement Summary

Analyse is a nonterminal, command statement that occurs only in command scripts. It initiates the code analysis phase of the translation process. This phase takes as input the intermediate code produced by the compiler and outputs an intermediate code that can be authored in the target language. Once completed each active code unit has two intermediate code representations stored in the virtual binary information file.

  The attributes of the Analyse statement are as follows:  

Though technically a nonterminal statement, the Analyse statement has no substatements at this time.

  The script errors associated with the Analyse statement are as follows:  

 
The analysis phase proceeds in the following steps. First, references to symbols with variant values are sought in the code to determine if their usage makes it possible to infer a stronger type for them. Most type inferences occur during this first step. Second, the code is reviewed and changes are made to make it compatible with the target .NET language. The actual changes made are different for C# versus VB.NET. Third, the argument passing logic is analysed. Argument types are cast to the appropriate types required by the parameters that they are passed to. Arguments that are passed ByRef are examined and where necessary temporaries are created to contain computed, constant, or NULL values that cannot be passed ByRef. Fourth, a final pass is made through the code units to make any final adjustments needed.