CSC444

Instructor: Doug Lea
Class: T-Th: 8am5
Office/Lab hours: Almost anytime.
Course home page: http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/csc444

Text

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, 2/Em by Aho, Lam, Sethi, and Ullman. Addison-Wesley, 2007, ISBN-10: 0321486811 This is the reference-quality `Dragon book' providing definitive treatments of most topics in compilation.

Topics

Lexical Analysis
Parsing
Semantic Representation and Analysis
Run-Time Environments
Code Generation
Optimization

Requirements

Subject to minor adjustment:

Project 70% (submitted in 5 to 7 parts)
Exams 20% (two @ 10%)
Exercises 10% (two to four short paper-and-pencil assignments)

Project due dates will be spread as evenly as possible throughout the semester.

Phase 1: Use a parser tool to generate a parser for a version of mini-java with any approved syntax addition. Demostrate successful parses of sample programs, along with recovery upon syntax errors.

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