CS325: Compiler Design

Module information for October 2006

• CS325: Official information
• Please see teaching philosophy if you plan to sit this module.
• Lectures: We 10am, Th 9am, Fr 9am, CS104.
  (I know this is very early and some students may find it difficult to wake up, but this is the only schedule which allowed resolving some of the clashes between modules. Please try to attend all lectures.)
• Books:
  Andrew Appel: Modern Compiler Implementation in Java, Cambridge University Press, 2002
  Online resources: http://www.cambridge.org/resources/052182060X/
  Auxilliary texts:
  Watt and Brown: Programming Language Processors in Java, Prentice Hall, 2000
  Grune, Bal, Jacobs, Langendoen: Modern Compiler Design, John Wiley and Sons, 2000
  Aho, Sethi, Ullman: Compilers: Principles, Techniques, Tools, Addison-Wesley, 1986
  Niklaus Wirth's classic book on Compiler Construction
  The comp.compilers newsgroup
• Forum: Departments>Computer Science>UGyear3>CS325
• Translator to Intermediate Code: A program to build IR trees from MiniJava code is available on DCS machines:

   java -cp /dcs/acad/sk/irtree.jar Main ****.mj 

  where the last argument is a MiniJava program. Examples are sample1.mj and sample2.mj.

• NEW:
  • material covered in each lecture
  • suggestions on what to read for revision
  • Revision sessions: Tuesdays 22 and 29 May, 10am, room CS1.04

Teaching material:

week	notes	reading	exercises	feedback
1	cd01.pdf	Wirth
2			Roman numerals
3	cd02.pdf
4		Knuth note
5	cd03.pdf	JustAdd
6	cd04.pdf			questionnaire
8	cd05.pdf	Auslander
9	cd06.pdf