JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
OF
AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
BCT 2311 Compiler Construction ~ Course Outline
Course Goals
The students should be able to;
Understand the fundamental issues in modern compiler design and implementation.
Become familiar with concepts, methods, and tools in compiler front-end design.
Become familiar with methods, techniques in compiler intermediate representation and code
generation.
Become familiar with basics of compiler analysis and optimization.
Course Description
Formal treatment of programming language translation and compiler design concepts; compilers and
interpreters . Language theory. Parsing context-free languages, translation specifications and machine-
independent code optimization; main phases of compilation. Lexical analysis. Syntax analysis. Semantic
analysis. Code generation. Symbol table design. Program compilation. Loading and execution. Compilation
techniques. Optimisation. Design of a simple complete compiler.
Course Plan
WEEK DETAILS HOURS
Week 1 Introduction: Introduction to compiler construction, Phases of compilers, 5
Challenges in Compiler Design.
Week 2 Lexical Analysis: Role of lexical analyzer, specification of Tokens, 5
Regular expressions, Lexical Analysis tools
Week 3 Lexical Analysis conti: Token recognition: Non-deterministic Finite 5
Automata (NFA), Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA)
Week 4 Parsing And Parser Design: Role of parser, Grammar, 5
Context- Free Grammar.
Week 5 Parsing And Parser Design conti: Top-Down: Recursive descent 5
parsing, LL(1) parsing
Week 6 Parsing And Parser Design Conti: Bottom-Up parsing: Shift-reduce 5
parsing, LR parsing, Types of LR parsing.
Week 7 Parsing And Parser Design Conti: LR(1) parsing, LR(1) parsing
methods: SLR, Canonical LR, LALR
Week 8 Semantic Analysis: Semantics, Attribute Grammar, Synthesized Attributes, 5
Inherited Attributes
Week 9 Semantic Analysis cont: Type Checking: Static vs Dynamic checking, 5
Type expressions
Week 10 Intermediate Code Generation: Intermediate Languages, Representation 5
techniques, Syntax trees and P-code
Week 11 Intermediate Code Generation conti: Three address Code, One address 5
code, Three address Code implementation, and Generation.
Week 12 Target Code Generation: Basic block, code generation for Tree, 5
Register Allocation.
Week 13 Code Optimization: Classification of Optimization, Optimization
Techniques, Optimization Transformations. 5
Week 14 Code Optimization conti: Local Optimization, Global Optimization, 5
Data Flow Analysis.
Week 15 & 16 Examinations
1|P age
OF
AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
BCT 2311 Compiler Construction ~ Course Outline
Course Goals
The students should be able to;
Understand the fundamental issues in modern compiler design and implementation.
Become familiar with concepts, methods, and tools in compiler front-end design.
Become familiar with methods, techniques in compiler intermediate representation and code
generation.
Become familiar with basics of compiler analysis and optimization.
Course Description
Formal treatment of programming language translation and compiler design concepts; compilers and
interpreters . Language theory. Parsing context-free languages, translation specifications and machine-
independent code optimization; main phases of compilation. Lexical analysis. Syntax analysis. Semantic
analysis. Code generation. Symbol table design. Program compilation. Loading and execution. Compilation
techniques. Optimisation. Design of a simple complete compiler.
Course Plan
WEEK DETAILS HOURS
Week 1 Introduction: Introduction to compiler construction, Phases of compilers, 5
Challenges in Compiler Design.
Week 2 Lexical Analysis: Role of lexical analyzer, specification of Tokens, 5
Regular expressions, Lexical Analysis tools
Week 3 Lexical Analysis conti: Token recognition: Non-deterministic Finite 5
Automata (NFA), Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA)
Week 4 Parsing And Parser Design: Role of parser, Grammar, 5
Context- Free Grammar.
Week 5 Parsing And Parser Design conti: Top-Down: Recursive descent 5
parsing, LL(1) parsing
Week 6 Parsing And Parser Design Conti: Bottom-Up parsing: Shift-reduce 5
parsing, LR parsing, Types of LR parsing.
Week 7 Parsing And Parser Design Conti: LR(1) parsing, LR(1) parsing
methods: SLR, Canonical LR, LALR
Week 8 Semantic Analysis: Semantics, Attribute Grammar, Synthesized Attributes, 5
Inherited Attributes
Week 9 Semantic Analysis cont: Type Checking: Static vs Dynamic checking, 5
Type expressions
Week 10 Intermediate Code Generation: Intermediate Languages, Representation 5
techniques, Syntax trees and P-code
Week 11 Intermediate Code Generation conti: Three address Code, One address 5
code, Three address Code implementation, and Generation.
Week 12 Target Code Generation: Basic block, code generation for Tree, 5
Register Allocation.
Week 13 Code Optimization: Classification of Optimization, Optimization
Techniques, Optimization Transformations. 5
Week 14 Code Optimization conti: Local Optimization, Global Optimization, 5
Data Flow Analysis.
Week 15 & 16 Examinations
1|P age
