CS 444/544 Compilers
Spring 2017
Lectures
The lecture notes below are adapted from the original slides prepared by Cooper and Torczon (i.e. our textbook’s authors) for their course at Rice.
Week 1 (30.01-03.02.2017)
Intro & Scanning
Week 2 (06.02-10.02.2017)
Scanning and Parsing
- Lexical analysis
- Parsing. [Code]
Week 3 (13.02-17.02.2017)
Scanning and Parsing
- Parsing. [Slides]
Week 4 (20.02-24.02.2017)
Intermediate Representation
- Read EaC2 Chapter 5 [Slides]
- Install LLVM
- LLVM IR experiments from the lecture
Week 5 (27.02-03.03.2017)
Code Generation
- LLVM IR experiments cont’d
- LLVM’s getelementptr Instruction
- The often misunderstood GEP instruction
Week 6 (06.03-10.03.2017)
Code Generation
Week 7 (13.03-17.03.2017)
Midterm Exam
Week 8 (20.03-24.03.2017) - Withdrawal week
Code Generation
Week 9 (27.03-31.03.2017)
Code Generation
Week 10 (03.04-07.04.2017)
Optimization
Week of 10.04-14.04.2017)
Spring break!
Week 11 (17.04-21.04.2017)
Optimization
- Code transformation (LICM and GCSE)
- Passes in LLVM: [Sample code] [Documentation]
- Suggested exercises (Chapter 8): 4
- Suggested exercises (Chapter 9): 3, 5a, 6, and the exercises on the slides.
- Suggested exercises (Chapter 10): “Before” and “After” cases of applying LICM and GCSE.
Week 12 (24.04-28.04.2017)
The Backend
Week 13 01.05-05.05.2017)
The Backend
- Register allocation [Slides]
Week 14 (08.05-12.05.2017)
The Backend