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-\subsection*{Question 1 (marked with 1\%)}
+\subsection*{Question 1 (marked with 2\%)}
You need to lex and parse WHILE programs and submit the assembler
instructions for the Fibonacci program and for the program you submitted
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\texttt{for} \;\textit{Id} \texttt{:=} \textit{AExp}\; \texttt{upto} \;\textit{AExp}\; \texttt{do} \textit{Block}
\end{center}
+\noindent
+The intended meaning is to first assign the variable \textit{Id} the value of the first arithmetic
+expression, then go through the loop, at the end increase the value of the variable by 1,
+and finally test wether the value is not less or equal anymore to the value of the second
+arithmetic expression. For example the following instance of a \texttt{for}-loop
+is supposed to print out the numbers \texttt{2}, \texttt{3}, \texttt{4}.
+
+
+\begin{center}
+\begin{minipage}{6cm}
+\begin{lstlisting}[language=While,basicstyle=\ttfamily, numbers=none]
+for i := 2 upto 4 do {
+ write i
+}
+\end{lstlisting}
+\end{minipage}
+\end{center}
+
+\noindent
+There are two ways how this can be implemented: one is to adapt the code generation
+part of the compiler and generate specific code for \texttt{for}-loops; the other is to
+translate the abstract syntax tree of \texttt{for}-loops into an abstract syntax tree using
+existing language constructs (for example while loops).
+
+
+
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