CSCI 434T

Compiler Design

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Instructor:	Prof. Stephen Freund
Email:	freund@cs.williams.edu
Phone:	x4260
Office:	TPL 302 (top floor of Physics, facing West College)
Office Hours:	Wed. 10-11:30, Thurs. 2:30-4

Course Description

This tutorial covers the principles and practices for the design and implementation of compilers and interpreters. Topics include all stages of the compilation and execution process: lexical analysis; parsing; symbol tables; type systems; scope; semantic analysis; intermediate representations; run-time environments and interpreters; code generation; program analysis and optimization; and garbage collection. The course covers both the theoretical and practical implications of these topics. As a project course, students will construct a full compiler for a simple object-oriented language.