IN4020TU:		Compiler Construction

Contact person:		K.G. Langendoen
Instructor(s):		K.G. Langendoen
Credit points:		5 EC
Study material:		Book "Modern Compiler Design" by D.Grune et al.
			(ISBN 0 471 97697 0) + lecture notes
Form:			Lectures 0/0/2/2
Additional lab hours:	80
Exams:			Practical work + written exam
Prerequisites:		C programming (required) +
			software engineering (advised) +
			programming languages (advised)
Follow-up courses:
Objectives:		To be able to understand the workings of, and interplay
			between, various components making up a compiler.
			To be able to operate commonly-used compiler
			construction tools 
Content:			
 	
Modern compiler construction is no longer restricted to imperative source
languages. This course takes this as a starting point. The course consists of
two parts:
1) general structure of compilers, including lexical, syntactical and
   semantical analysis, code generation techniques and memory management;
2) compilation of imperative and object-oriented languages, including code
   generation and run-time support for these paradigms.
The practical work consists of crafting a peephole optimizer for x86 assembly
programs using standard support tools (i.e. flex and bison).