CS 152: Compiler Design

Instructor:        Professor Rajiv Gupta
Office:               WCH, Room 408
Email:               gupta@cs.ucr.edu
Office Hours:   Available by appointment

TA:                    Chengshuo Xu
Office:               WCH, Room 463
Email:               cxu009@ucr.edu
Office hours:   Available by appointment

Meeting Times:

• (Lectures) MWF, 3:00pm - 3:50pm
  
• (LAB)        Thursday, 11:00am-1:50pm; Friday, 8:00am-10:50am
  

Lecture Schedule & Slides

Project

1. Lexical Analyzer (1/08/21 -- 1/22/21)
2. Syntax Analyzer (1/22/21 -- 2/19/21)
3. Code Generator (2/19/21 -- 3/12/21)

Course Description

This course covers the fundamentals of compiler design, including lexical analysis, parsing, semantic analysis, compile-time memory organization, run-time memory organization, code generation, and compiler portability issues. Laboratory work involves a project and exercises covering various aspects of compilers. For detailed syllabus click here.

Text book

• Kenneth C. Louden. Compiler Construction: Principles and Practice. PWS Publishing Co., 1997.

References

• Aho, Lam, Sethi, and Ullman. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, 2/E. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
• Cooper and Torczon. Engineering a Compiler. Second Edition. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
• Fischer and LeBlanc. Crafting A Compiler With C. Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co.

Course Requirements

• Project   - 35% (Lex: 10%; Parser: 12%; CodeGen: 13%)
• Midterm - 30% (2/05/2021, 3:00pm - 3:50pm)
• Final      - 35% (3/15/2021, 7:00pm - 10:00pm)

Policies

• You are responsible for all material covered in the lectures and labs.
• Cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, and unauthorized collaboration (or facilitating any of these) will result in severe penalties and sanctions.
• Examinations must be taken on the date they are given. There will be no exceptions unless you have a very good reason and have received permission well in advance of the date of the examination.