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Ronald Mak
Department of Computer Science
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| Week | Date | Content |
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| 1 | Aug 22 |
Slides:
Goals; course learning outcomes; project teams; grading;
postmortem assessment report; overview of the compilation
process; compiler as translator; other forms of translation;
translation demos; Pascal tutorials
Example Pascal program: SquareRootTable.pas Example object code (Jasmin): SquareRootTable.j Example language conversion (Pascal to Java): SquareRootTable.java |
| 2 | Aug 27 |
Slides:
It's all about translation; conceptual design; major parts
of compilers, converters, and interpreters; compilers vs.
interpreters; three Java packages; syntax diagrams;
how to scan for tokens; basic scanning algorithm;
test the scanner; current character vs. next character;
consume characters and tokens
Example Pascal programs: HelloWorld.pas Newton.pas Hilbert.pas Hilbert10000.pas Simple scanner, parser, and interpreter: Simple.zip |
| Aug 29 | Slides: Assignment #2; Pascal statement syntax diagrams; expressions; operator precedence; control statements; REPEAT statement syntax; parse tree design and operations; building a parse tree; test the parser; parse tree nodes; printing parse trees | |
| 3 | Sep 3 |
Slides:
Building the parse tree with parser methods; handling
syntax errors; the symbol table and its entries; a hack;
a simple interpreter; what is "run time"; using the
parse tree and symbol table at run time; another hack;
parse tree visit methods
Sample erroneous code: HelloErrors-1.txt HelloErrors-2.txt |
| Sep 5 | Slides: Simple interpreter; visiting parse nodes during run time; REPEAT statement; LOOP subtree; evaluating expressions; Assignment #3; WHILE statement; IF statement and the dangling ELSE; FOR statement; CASE statement | |
| 4 | Sep 10 |
Slides:
Assignment #3; maximum munch; an
executor improvement; syntax and semantics; options
for error recovery; top-down recursive descent parsing;
accomplishments so far; temporary hacks; a DFA scanner
DFA scanner: SimpleDFAScanner.java SimpleDFAInput.txt |
| Sep 12 |
Slides:
Language hierarchy; regular expressions and tokens;
BNF; grammars and languages; derivations and productions;
ANTLR's BNF; compiler-compilers; ANTLR 4; ANTLR lexer;
ANTLR grammar file; Java main programs; on the command
line; Eclipse ANTLR plug-in
ANTLR example: Expr.g4 ExprMain.java input.txt error.txt |
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| 5 | Sep 17 |
Slides:
What does ANTLR do for us?; ANTLR workflow; ANTLR parse
trees; syntax error handling; resolving ambiguities;
visitor interface; interface ExprVisitor; base visitor
class ExprBaseVisitor; labeled production rules;
interface ExprLabeledVisitor; base class
ExprLabeledBaseVisitor; class Executor
ANTLR example: ExprLabeled.zip |
| Sep 19 | Slides: Pcl4 grammar; package structure; Pcl4 visitor interface; Pcl4 base visitor class; class Executor; Assignment #4; declarations; constant definitions; simple type definitions; array type definitions; record type definitions; variable declarations; declarations and the symbol table; scope and the symbol table stack | |
| 6 | Sep 24 |
Slides:
Scope and the symbol table stack; nested scopes; scope of
record fields; class Symtab; class SymtabStack; class
SymtabEntry; Pascal declarations; grammar file Pcl5.g4;
declarations and the symbol table; type specification
attributes; class Typespec
ANTLR example: Pcl5.zip |
| Sep 26 |
Slides:
Syntax and semantics; multipass compilers; software
engineering; type declaration structures;
multidimensional array; cross-reference listing;
predefined scalar types; type checking; assignment and
comparison compatible; type checking expressions;
class TypeChecker; visit methods for type definitions;
new fields for parse tree nodes; Pcl6
ANTLR example: Pcl6.zip |
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| 7 | Oct 1 | Slides: Type checking; pass 3 uses node info from pass 2; runtime memory management; symbol table stack vs. runtime stack; stack frame; access to nonlocal variables; runtime display; recursive calls; allocate a stack frame; runtime error checking; Pascal.g4; Pascal interpreter |
| Oct 3 |
Slides:
Grammar for a variable; type check a variable; grammar
for a procedure or function definition;
symbol table entry for a procedure or function; grammar
for procedure and function calls; type check a call;
source-level debugger; debugger command language;
review for the midterm
Midterm review questions |
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| 8 | Oct 8 | Midterm |
| Oct 10 | slides Interpreter, converter, compiler; converting Pascal to Java; target machines for compilation; Java Virtual Machine (JVM) architecture; JVM runtime stack and stack frame; Jasmin assembler; Jasmin assembly instructions; shortcut instructions | |
| 9 | Oct 15 |
Slides:
Example conversion of Pascal to Java;
local variables, load and store, arithmetic, other
instructions; code templates; compilation strategy;
Jasmin datatype descriptors;
program fields; code template for the main method;
loading and storing a program variable's value; code
for procedures and functions; compiling local variables;
generating code for expressions; comparing integer values
and other datatypes
Midterm solutions |
| Oct 17 | Slides: Jasmin code for assignment statements; load and store tips; What Would James Gosling Do?; Jasper; relational expressions; code templates for IF statements and looping statements; code for Newton's square root function; code for FOR and CASE statements; code for procedures and functions and calls; code for the main program | |
| 10 | Oct 22 | Slides: Calling methods on objects; invokestatic vs. invokevirtual; code for println() and printf(); final compiler project details |
| Oct 24 | Slides: Resource acquisition is initialization (RAII); Pascal arrays; code generation for arrays and subscripts; allocate memory for scalar arrays; access an element of a 2-D array; subscripted variables; allocate memory for non-scalar arrays; 1-D array of strings; 2-D array of strings; code for records and fields; passing parameters; runtime libraries | |
| 11 | Oct 29 | Slides: backend compiler architecture; compiler projects |
| Oct 31 | Slides: Code generation; instruction selection; register allocation; data flow analysis; instruction scheduling; code optimization: safety, profitability, constant folding, constant propagation, strength reduction, dead code elimination, loop unrolling, common subexpression elimination; debugging and optimizing compilers; compiling object-oriented languages | |
| 12 | Nov 5 |
Slides:
Passing parameters: Java and C++;
Java hack; runtime libraries; library example; code
generation for WHILE, IF, FOR, CASE, and procedure call;
static and dynamic scoping
Pass-by-reference examples: ScalarRef.pas ScalarRef.cpp ObjectRef.cpp Thing.java ObjectRef.java IWrap.java ReferenceHack1.java ReferenceHack2.java Runtime library example: Multiplier.java LibraryTest.java LibraryTest.j |
| Nov 7 | Slides: runtime memory management; heap management; garbage collection algorithms: reference counting, mark and sweep, stop and copy, generational; aggressive heap management; change Java's heap size; garbage collection research | |
| 13 | Nov 12 | Slides: On writing compilers; compilation challenges; speed comparisons; stack machine vs. register machine; CISC vs. RISC; a GUI-based debugger; integrated development environment (IDE); interprocess communication |
| Nov 14 |
Slides:
Regular grammar for tokens; encoding a DFA transition matrix;
context-free and context-sensitive grammars; top-down and
bottom-up parsers; shift-reduce parsing; yacc and lex
Simple switch DFA scanner: SimpleSwitchDFAScanner.java Example yacc/lex grammar: calc.l calc.y |
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| 14 | Nov 19 | Slides: Syntax-directed translation; attribute grammars; LL(1) and LR(0) parsers; FIRST and FOLLOW sets; three-address code; data-flow analysis |
| Nov 21 | Slides: Next few weeks; team compiler project surveys; recap; GUI-based debugger; compiler case study | |
| 15 | Nov 26 | Lab day |
| Nov 2 | Thanksgiving holiday: no class | |
| 16 | Dec 3 | Lab day |
| Dec 5 | Project presentations |
This course will concentrate on practical aspects of compiler construction, programming language design, and engineering a large, complex software application.
This is a challenging course that will demand much of your time and effort throughout the semester.
Department policy is to enforce
all course prerequisites strictly
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CS 47 Introduction to Computer Systems or CMPE 102 Assembly Language Programming |
grade C- or better |
| CS 146 Data Structures and Algorithms | grade C- or better |
| CS 154 Formal Languages and Computability | grade C- or better |
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The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference, 2nd edition Terence Parr Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2012 ISBN: 978-1934356999 http://www.antlr.org/ |
| Pascal Tutorial looks very good. It has an online Pascal compiler. |
| Learn Pascal also looks good, although it doesn't appear to cover set types. |
| http://rextester.com/l/pascal_online_compiler |
| https://www.tutorialspoint.com/compile_pascal_online.php |
| https://www.jdoodle.com/execute-pascal-online |
| Install the ANTLR 4 plug-in for Eclipse, etc. |
| The Java Virtual Machine Instruction Set |
