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Compiler Construction Course Overview

The document provides information about a compiler construction course, including: 1) The course objectives are to understand the overall structure of a compiler, know significant compiler techniques, and be aware of how language features challenge compiler builders. 2) The course syllabus covers principles of compilation, compiler structure, translation phases, desirable compiler properties, parsing, analysis, optimizations, and implementing a prototype compiler. 3) The textbook is "Engineering a Compiler" and reference materials include books on compilers by Aho, Ullman, Grune, and Appel.

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Compiler Construction Course Overview

The document provides information about a compiler construction course, including: 1) The course objectives are to understand the overall structure of a compiler, know significant compiler techniques, and be aware of how language features challenge compiler builders. 2) The course syllabus covers principles of compilation, compiler structure, translation phases, desirable compiler properties, parsing, analysis, optimizations, and implementing a prototype compiler. 3) The textbook is "Engineering a Compiler" and reference materials include books on compilers by Aho, Ullman, Grune, and Appel.

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Compiler Construction

Lecturer: Muhammad Fayyaz


Website: fayyazfayzi.com
Email: [email protected]
Course Objectives

 At the end of the course we will understand the overall


structure of a compiler
 know significant details of a number of important
techniques commonly used.
 aware of the way in which language features raise
challenges for compiler builders.
Course Syllabus
 Principles of Compilation
 Compiler Structure
 High-Level View of Translation
 Desirable Properties of a Compiler, Scanners, Parsers, Context-
Sensitive Analysis Intermediate Representations.
 The Procedure Abstraction, Code Shape, Code Optimization,
Data-Flow Analysis, Scalar Optimizations, Instruction Selection,
Instruction Scheduling, Register Allocation.
 Implementation of a prototype compiler (Lab Assignment for
the Semester)
Textbook(s)

 Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition by Keith


Cooper and Linda Torczon, Morgan Kaufmann;
2ndEdition (February 21, 2011). ISBN-10: 012088478X
Reference Material
 Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools By Alfred V. Aho,
Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D.Ullman, Contributor Jeffrey D. Ullman ,
Prentice Hall; 2ndEdition (2006). ISBN-10: 0321486811
 Modern Compiler Design, By Dick Grune, Henri E. Bal, Ceriel J.
H. Jacobs, Koen G.Langendoen, Springer; 2ndEdition. (2012).
ISBN-10: 1461446988
 Modern Compiler Implementation in C, By Andrew W. Appel,
Maia Ginsburg, Contributor Maia Ginsburg, Cambridge
University Press, (2004). ISBN-10: 0521607655
Why Study This Course
 Learn the programming paradigm
 Learn how programming language APIs work
 Learn programming framework and how they work
 Learn how IDE and Compilers work
 Learn Programming methodologies
 Learn Application Design Patterns
 Learn to develop Testing Tools and how they work
 Learn Documenting Tools and how they work
 Learn the basics of Modeling languages.
Why Take this Course

Reason #1: Understand compilers and languages


 Understand the code structure
 Understand language semantics
 Understand relation between source code and
generated machine code
 Become a better programmer
Why Take this Course

Reason #2: Nice balance of theory and practice


 Theory
 Mathematical models: regular expressions,
automata, grammars, graphs
 Algorithms that use these models
Why Take this Course

Reason #2: Nice balance of theory and practice


 Practice
 Apply theoretical notions to build a real compiler
Why Take this Course

Reason #3: programming experience


 write a large program which manipulates complex data
structures
 learn more about C++ and Intel x86
What are Compilers
 Compilers are computer programs that translate a program
written in one language into a program written in another
language.
 A compiler is a large software system, with many internal
components and algorithms and complex interactions
between them.
 The study of compiler construction is an introduction to
techniques for the translation and improvement of programs,
and a practical exercise in software engineering.
Examples

 Typical Compilers:
 VC, VC++, GCC, JavaC
 FORTRAN, Pascal, VB(?)
 Translators
 Word to PDF
 PDF to Postscript
Typical Compilation
Source Program

Compiler

Target Program
Source Code

int expr( int n )


{
int d;
d = 4*n*n*(n+1)*(n+1);
return d;
}
The Fundamental Principles of Compilation
 Compilers are large, complex, carefully engineered objects.
 There are two fundamental principles that a compiler writer
must keep in mind at all times. The first principle is inviolable:
1. The compiler must preserve the meaning of the program being
compiled.
2. The compiler must improve the input program in some
discernible way.
Thanks…!

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