CS 152: Compiler Design

Instructor:        Professor Rajiv Gupta
Office:               WCH, Room 408
Email:               gupta@cs.ucr.edu
Office Hours:   Available by appointment
TA:                    Mahbod Afarin
Office:               WCH, Room 463
Email:               mafar001@ucr.edu
Office hours:   Available by appointment

Meeting Times:

• (Lectures) MWF, 4:00pm - 4:50pm
  
• (LAB)        Thursday, 11:00am-1:50pm & 2:00pm-4:50pm
  

Lecture Schedule & Slides

Project

1. Lexical Analyzer (4/02/21 -- 4/16/21)
2. Syntax Analyzer (4/16/21 -- 5/14/21)
3. Code Generator (5/14/21 -- 6/04/21)

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% (4/30/2021, 4:00pm - 4:50pm)
• Final      - 35% (6/08/2021, 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.