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Compiler Design

24AIE614 · S6 · 4 credits

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Module 01Introduction to compilers and lexical analysis (7 hrs)expand

Analysis of the source program - Analysis and synthesis phases, Phases of a compiler. Compiler writing tools. Bootstrapping. Lexical Analysis - Role of Lexical Analyser, Input Buffering, Specification of Tokens - Regular Expressions (RE) to represent tokens, Recognition of Tokens.

Module 02Top Down parsing (7 hrs)expand

Role of the Syntax Analyser, Review of Context Free Grammars - Derivation and Parse Trees, Eliminating Ambiguity. Basic parsing approaches - Eliminating left recursion, left factoring. Top-Down Parsing - Recursive Descent parsing, Predictive Parsing, LL(1) Grammars.

Module 03Bottom Up Parsing (8 hrs)expand

Handle Pruning. Shift Reduce parsing. Operator precedence parsing (Concept only). LR parsing - Constructing SLR, LALR and canonical LR parsing tables.

Module 04Syntax directed translation and Intermediate Code Generation (8 hrs)expand

Syntax directed translation - Syntax directed definitions, S-attributed definitions, L- attributed definitions, Bottom-up evaluation of S-attributed definitions. Run-Time Environments - Source Language issues, Storage organization, Storage-allocation strategies. Intermediate Code Generation - Intermediate languages, Graphical representations, Three-Address code, Quadruples, Triples.

Module 05Code optimization and Code Generation (6 hrs)expand

Code Optimization - Principal sources of optimization, Machine dependent and machine independent optimizations, Local and global optimizations. Code generation - Issues in the design of a code generator, Target Language, A simple code generator.

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