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TDDB29 Compilers and Interpreters, 4,5 ECTS credits.
/Kompilatorer och interpretatorer/

For:   D   I   Ii   Mat   Y  

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  Advancement level (A-D): C

Aim:
The course aims to teach the principles of compiler construction and administration of run-time storage.

Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Participants are expected to have knowledge of: a procedural programming language such as Pascal, internal data structures such as arrays and lists, and theory and implementation of abstract data types.

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.

Organisation:
The theory is presented during the lectures. The laboratory assignments consists of building compiler components such as syntactical and lexical analysers.

Course contents:
Different types of translators such as compilers and preprocessors. Grammars and formal languages. Lexical and syntax analysis. Intermediate code generation. The course also gives a brief introduction to: Memory management and run-time organization. Code generation and code optimization. Compiler construction tools. Criteria for language design.

Course literature:
Aho, A.V., Sethi, R., Ullman, J.D., Compiler Principles, Techniques and Tools, Addison-Wesley, Publ Co 1986

Examination:
Written examination
Laboratory work
1,5 p
1,5 p
 



Course language is Swedish.
Department offering the course: IDA.
Director of Studies: sas-sr@ida.liu.se
Examiner: Peter Fritzson
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Last updated: 05/10/2003