Translation module, processing module and control system

A method for operating a translation module for a machine control,

• wherein the translation module processes an input program code of a control program and produces therefrom a uniform intermediate representation having work instructions for execution by the machine control,
• wherein the input program code comprises a first program code component and a second program code component,
• wherein the first program code component is written in a first programming language and the second program code component is written in a second programming language,
• wherein the work instructions of the intermediate representation comprise a first work instruction and a second work instruction, and
• wherein the first work instruction is produced on the basis of the first program code component and the second work instruction is produced on the basis of the second program code component,
• wherein the translation module comprises a resolution module,
• wherein the resolution module reads in the first program code component and the second program code component from the input program code and converts them into basic symbols,
• wherein the resolution module adopts a first state and a second state,
• wherein the resolution module in the first state converts the first program code component into basic symbols of the first programming language,
• wherein the resolution module in the second state converts the second program code component into basic symbols of the second programming language,
• wherein the resolution module executes a state transition from the first state to the second state when a first control sequence is read in from the input program code and executes a state transition from the second state to the first state when a second control sequence is read in from the input program code,
• wherein the translation module comprises a parser module that creates a uniform structure tree of the control program from the basic symbols,
• wherein the parser module executes a syntactic check on the input program code on the basis of a combined grammar,
• wherein the combined grammar comprises rules of a first grammar of the first programming language and rules of a second grammar of the second programming language, and
• wherein the combined grammar comprises an embedding rule, which describes a manner in which basic symbols or nonterminal symbols of the first programming language and basic symbols or nonterminal symbols of the second programming language are combined with one another.