Syllabus

CS6660       COMPILER DESIGN

OBJECTIVES:

The student should be made to:

·        Learn the design principles of a Compiler.

·        Learn the various parsing techniques and different levels of translation

·        Learn how to optimize and effectively generate machine codes

 

UNIT I         INTRODUCTION TO COMPILERS

Translators-Compilation and Interpretation-Language processors -The Phases of Compiler-Errors Encountered in Different Phases-The Grouping of Phases-Compiler Construction Tools - Programming Language basics.

 

UNIT II        LEXICAL ANALYSIS

Need and Role of Lexical Analyzer-Lexical Errors-Expressing Tokens by Regular Expressions-Converting Regular Expression to DFA- Minimization of DFA-Language for Specifying Lexical Analyzers-LEX-Design of Lexical Analyzer for a sample Language.

 

UNIT III       SYNTAX ANALYSIS

Need and Role of the Parser-Context Free Grammars -Top Down Parsing -General Strategies-Recursive Descent Parser Predictive Parser-LL(1) Parser-Shift Reduce Parser-LR Parser-LR (0)Item-Construction of SLR Parsing Table -Introduction to LALR Parser - Error Handling and Recovery in Syntax Analyzer-YACC-Design of a syntax Analyzer for a Sample Language.

 

UNIT IV       SYNTAX DIRECTED TRANSLATION & RUN TIME ENVIRONMENT

Syntax directed Definitions-Construction of Syntax Tree-Bottom-up Evaluation of S-Attribute Definitions- Design of predictive translator - Type Systems-Specification of a simple type checker-Equivalence of Type Expressions-Type Conversions. RUN-TIME ENVIRONMENT: Source Language Issues-Storage Organization-Storage Allocation-Parameter Passing-Symbol Tables-Dynamic Storage Allocation-Storage Allocation in FORTAN.

 

UNIT V        CODE OPTIMIZATION AND CODE GENERATION

Principal Sources of Optimization-DAG- Optimization of Basic Blocks-Global Data Flow Analysis-Efficient Data Flow Algorithms-Issues in Design of a Code Generator - A Simple Code Generator Algorithm.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

OUTCOMES:

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

·        Design and implement a prototype compiler.

·        Apply the various optimization techniques.

·        Use the different compiler construction tools.

 

TEXTBOOK:

1. Alfred V Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey D Ullman, “Compilers – Principles, Techniques and Tools”, 2nd Edition, Pearson Education, 2007.

 

REFERENCES:

1. Randy Allen, Ken Kennedy, “Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures: A Dependence-based Approach”, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2002.

2. Steven S. Muchnick, “Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation, “Morgan Kaufmann Publishers - Elsevier Science, India, Indian Reprint 2003.

3. Keith D Cooper and Linda Torczon, “Engineering a Compiler”, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Elsevier Science, 2004.

4. Charles N. Fischer, Richard. J. LeBlanc, “Crafting a Compiler with C”, Pearson Education, 2008.