CSCE 531: Compiler Construction (Spring 2007)

Prerequisites: CSCE 245 and either CSCE 330 or CSCE 350.

Instructor: Marco Valtorta
Office: Swaeringen 3A55, 777-4641
E-mail: mgv@cse.sc.edu
Office Hours: MWF, 1045-1145 or by previous appointment.
Teaching Assistant and Grader: Sen Xu, xu4@cse.sc.edu, Office: 300 Main A111 Office Hours: TTh 1325-1455 Phone 777-7506

Syllabus

Grading and Program Submission Policy

Reference materials:

Watt, David A. and Deryck F. Brown. Programming Language Processors in Java. Prentice-Hall, 2000 (required text). Supplementary materials from the author, including an errata list, are available.

current departmental syllabus for CSCE 531, and the

old departmental syllabus for CSCI 531, which is provided for historical information.

• Review formalisms for describing the syntax and semantics of (imperative) programming languages
• Study the fundamental algorithms used in compiler construction
• Analyze and extend the Java code for a compiler for the imperative programming language Triangle, whose target is a simple stack machine.
• Understand the interpreter of pure LISP.