CSCI 515

Principles of Compilers

Introduction to parser and compiler construction. Topics include formal languages and grammars, lexical analyzers, and parsers, including stack-based, bottom-up, top-down, recursive descent, and table driven approaches. Code generation for arithmetic expressions, basic variables, decisions, loops, functions, symbol tables, error checking, register allocation techniques, arrays and records, recursion, scope, object-oriented issues, I/O, exception handling, and optimization techniques. Extensive laboratory work with a focus on compiler development

Units: 3.0