Thread: symbol table in c , suggest good material

A symbol table can just be an array of structs, eg.

Code:

typedef struct {
	char *literal;
	int value;
} token;

"literal" would be the actual representation, eg, "2+2" or "myfunc(arg)". "value" in that case would be "4" or whatever myfunc(arg) does.

However, if you are new to C, why is it you need to know about symbol tables? AFAIK they are used in parsing, which is usually not a trivial task.