COL728: Compiler Design

Sem I, 2022-23

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Lecture schedule

Week	Dates	Material
1	3 Aug - 5 Aug 2022	Videos: Evolution of Compilers Compoilation is partial evaluation of the Interpreter Introduction to Optimizations Outline of a Compiler Introduction to Lexical Analysis Notes: Introduction to Interpreters, Compilers, and Programming Languages Lexical Analysis Examples and Regular Languages
2	8 Aug - 12 Aug 2022	Videos: Regular Expressions Lexical Analysis High Level Algorithm DFA and NFA Software Implementation of DFA and NFA Regular Expression to NFA Context Free Grammar CFG Examples Notes: Formal Languages and Lexical Specifications Context free languages and Derivations, Error handling, ASTs
3	15 Aug - 19 Aug 2022	Videos: Derivation Tree and Order Ambiguity in CFG Error Handling Abstract Syntax Tree Recrusive Descent Parsing Introduction Notes: Context free languages and Derivations, Error handling, ASTs Recursive Descent Parsing
4	22 Aug - 26 Aug 2022	Videos: Recursive Descnt Parsing Algorithm Left Recursion Predictive Parsing LL1 Parsing Constructing First Sets Notes: Recursive Descent Parsing (contd.) Bottom up Parsing
5	29 Aug - 2 Sep 2022	Videos: Constructing Follow Sets Construct LL1 Parsing Table Introduction to Bottom-up Parsing Shift Reduce Parsing Handles Viable Prefixes Structure of Viable Prefixes NFA for recognizing viable prefixes LR0 Algorithm SLR Implementation SLR Examples Notes: Bottom up Parsing (contd.)
6	5 Sep - 9 Sep 2022	Videos: Module 34 : Semantic Analysis, Introduction to Scope Module 35 : Semantic Analysis as Recursive Descent over AST Module 36 : Types Module 37 : Type Formalism Module 38 : Soundness of a Typesystem Module 39 : More Type Rules Module 40 : Type Environments Module 41 : Type Environment and Symbol Table Module 42 : Typing Methods Module 43 : Typechecker Implementation Module 44 : Static vs Dynamic Types Module 45 : Recovering from Type Errors Notes: Semantic Analysis
7	12 Sep - 16 Sep 2022	Videos: Module 46 : Runtime Organization Notes: Runtime Organization Introduction to Code Generation
8	19 Sep - 23 Sep 2022	Notes: Code Generation Code Generation for Objects
9	26 Sep - 28 Sep 2022	Minor exam
10	29 Sep - 7 Oct 2022	Semester break during 2 Oct - 5 Oct Language Semantics (contd.)
11	10 Oct - 14 Oct 2022	Intermediate Language Optimization Overview Local Optimization
12	17 Oct - 21 Oct 2022	Dataflow analysis Global constant propagation
13	24 Oct - 28 Oct 2022	Global constant propagation (contd.) Register allocation
14	31 Oct - 4 Nov 2022	Lazy Code Motion Phase Ordering Problem Loop Transformations Affine loop Transformations
14	7 Nov - 11 Nov 2022	More DFA Examples, Register Allocation, Register Spilling

Lecture Videos Playlist (Embedded)