FI:PA037 Compiler Project - Course Information

PA037 Compiler Project

Extent and Intensity

0/2. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

prof. RNDr. Antonín Kučera, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. RNDr. Mojmír Křetínský, CSc.
Department of Computer Science – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Antonín Kučera, Ph.D.

Timetable

Thu 14:00–15:50 B411

Prerequisites

PA008 Compiler Construction

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Applied Informatics (programme FI, N-AP)
• Information Technology Security (programme FI, N-IN)
• Bioinformatics (programme FI, N-AP)
• Information Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Parallel and Distributed Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Graphics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Networks and Communication (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Embedded Systems (eng.) (programme FI, N-IN)
• Embedded Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Service Science, Management and Engineering (eng.) (programme FI, N-AP)
• Service Science, Management and Engineering (programme FI, N-AP)
• Theoretical Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-TV)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, N-SS) (2)
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (programme FI, N-IN)
• Image Processing (programme FI, N-AP)

Course objectives

The aim of the seminar is to provide students with a deeper knowledge about the structure of programming languages and the funcionality of the corresponding compilers. To pass this seminar, students have to design a simple programming language and implement its compiler. It is possible to work in groups of 2-4 members; the complexity of the project should be proportional to the number of group members.
Main objectives of the course can be summarized as follows: to understand basic design principles of programming languages and their compilers; to design a simple programming language and implement its compiler.

Syllabus

• The logical structure of a compiler. Formalisms used to specify the individual modules.
• The scanner. Regular expressions. Tokens and their precedence.
• The parser. Top-down and bottom-up analysis.
• The constrainer. Attribute grammars. Attribute flow. Attribute evaluation.
• The code generator, optimisations.
• A complete specification of a simple one-pass optimising compiler.
• Symbol tables as attributes. Declarations, type checking, scope analysis.
• Functions. Stack frames. Passing of parameters. Conventions of C and Pascal.
• Input and Output. Unix and the C language.
• I386 assembler, conventions of the C language.

Literature

• WILHELM, Reinhard and Dieter MAURER. Compiler design. Wokingham: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995, xv, 606 s. ISBN 0-201-42290-5. info
• FISCHER, Charles N. and Richard J. LEBLANC. Crafting a compiler. Menlo Park: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1988, 811 s. ISBN 0-8053-3201-4. info
• AHO, Alfred V., Ravi SETHI and Jeffrey D. ULLMAN. Compilers, principles, techniques, and tools. Reading: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1987, x, 796 s. ISBN 0-201-10088-6. info

Teaching methods

Lectures, tutorials, project.

Assessment methods

Seminars and a group project.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.

• Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2011, recent)
  
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