Compiler Design and Implementation

3 credits · Undergraduate

Introduction to the systematic construction of a compiler: context-free and regular grammars, scanners, attribute grammars, parsing, syntax trees, runtime organization, symbol tables, internal representations, compile-time error handling, semantic analysis, storage allocation, code generation, linking, byte code, interpreters, ahead-of-time (AoT) and just-in-time (JiT) techniques. Students will use compiler construction tools in a term project.