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Compiler Design CSCI 447 - Summer 2002 733 Falaki Academic Center, Ext: 5305 Office Hours: MTW 10-12 noon Assistants Hussam Mousa husmousa@aucegypt.edu, Tel: 010-5288775 Catalog Description Prerequisite: CSCI 325. Offered in fall and spring. Principles and practices in the design of compilers. Lexical analysis. Syntax analysis, top-down and bottom-up parsing. Syntax-directed translation and syntax trees. Declarations, types, and symbol management. Run-time environments, storage organization, parameter passing, dynamic storage allocation. Intermediate languages and intermediate code generation. Code generation and optimization. Project: students construct a simple compiler that generates unoptimized code. Textbook Kenneth Louden, Compiler Construction: Principles and Practice, PWS publishing company, 1997. Reference Aho, Sethi, and Ullman, Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, Addison Wesley, 1988. Objectives To present a practical approach to the subject of compiler construction. To cover the components of a compiler and how they fit together. To automate the generation of compiler components using Lex and Yacc. Get Adobe Acrobat Reader. All downloadable files are in PDF format. Lecture Transparencies Introduction to compiling, the translation process Scanning theory, regular expressions, finite automata **Updated** Using the Lex scanner generator, a TINY language and scanner Symbol tables, hashing, and hash tables Context-Free grammars, parse trees, syntax trees, ambiguity, TINY syntax Recursive descent, LL(1) parsing, Syntax tree construction, Grammar analysis LR parsing techniques: LR(0), SLR(1), LR(1) and LALR(1) parsing Yacc, semantic actions and attributes, precedence and associativity Semantic processing techniques, attribute grammars Data types and type checking. Intermediate code generation, translating expressions, control structures, etc. Flex and Bison Exams Midterm Exam: Sunday, July 7, 12:30 pm, room 508 FLAC Final Exam: Monday, July 22, 9:00 am, room 508 FLAC Written Assignments Projects 1: Scanner Generation with Lex Sample Exams Grading Written assignments and quizzes: 15% Programming assignments: 30% Midterm Exam: 20% or 25% Final Exam : 35% or 30% Last Updated: Junly 2002, by Dr. Muhamed Mudawar |