CS6660-Compiler-Design-Notes

CS6660 COMPILER DESIGN L T P C 3 0 0 3

OBJECTIVES:

The student should be made to:

Ø Learn the design principles of a Compiler.

Ø Learn the various parsing techniques and different levels of translation.

Ø Learn how to optimize and effectively generate machine codes.65

UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO COMPILERS 5

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 9

Need and Role of Lexical Analyzer-Lexical Errors-Expressing Tokens by Regular ExpressionsConverting 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 10

Need and Role of the Parser-Context Free Grammars -Top Down Parsing -General StrategiesRecursive Descent Parser Predictive Parser-LL(1) Parser-Shift Reduce Parser-LR Parser-LR (0)ItemConstruction 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 12

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 checkerEquivalence of Type Expressions-Type Conversions.

RUN-TIME ENVIRONMENT: Source Language Issues-Storage Organization-Storage AllocationParameter Passing-Symbol Tables-Dynamic Storage Allocation-Storage Allocation in FORTAN.

UNIT V CODE OPTIMIZATION AND CODE GENERATION 9

Principal Sources of Optimization-DAG- Optimization of Basic Blocks-Global Data Flow AnalysisEfficient 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.