Compiler construction 2010

Transition procedure

This academic year (fall 2010) the compiler construction course will be completely overhauled as a new teacher (Eelco Visser) takes over. However, we (Venkat Iyer + Koen Langendoen) will provide students who already obtained a partial result in last year's (fall 2009, or even earlier) course the following support to finish it:

we will set two deadlines for the lab work (October 22nd, January 14th), provide assistance upon request (email Venkat Iyer at V.G.Iyer@tudelft.nl), and grade the submissions; note that you will have to obtain a fresh CPM entry in September to participate.
we will schedule two written exams, and grade them; the first is on January 18th, 14:00, and the second on April 4th, 14:00. Note that you should register for the exam by Osiris under the in4303 code allocated to the new teacher (E. Visser / G. Wachsmuth).

In short, there is one more year of compiler construction as you know it, except that we do not take any new students on, and that no lectures will be taught. If you do not finish off the compiler construction course this academic year (2010/2011), you will have to enroll in the course new style, so hurry up!

Course documents

info (studiegids)
handouts
old exams (ignore questions 53-60 covering functional and logic programming)
The Modern Compiler Design book (sold by CH and ETV)

Practical work

The assignments can be found here.
A basic empty project with utility code and examples can be downloaded here.
The additional support software needed for the practical work is installed at the "standard" machines for computer science students located in the labs at Drebbelweg. People working from a Windows machine may use the Cygwin emulation package (shell, gcc compiler, flex, bison, etc.) instead.
Note that we do inspect your code thoroughly, and be advised to avoid the following common coding errors.
Add to the highscore list to show how well you can optimize. Enter the competition by typing make highscore, which will submit your translate program source and have it benchmarked.

CPM

The assignments must be handed in through the CPM system.
Register yourself as early as possible by clicking the ``Sign up'' button for the ``IN4303 compiler construction (OLD STYLE)'' entry on the CPM page that appears after logging in.