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COMPILER DESIGN USING JAVA« IBD

SOFTMOORE CONSULTING
09 / 2022
9781734139129
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Sinopsis

This book is designed primarily for use as a textbook in a one-semester course on compiler design for undergraduate students and beginning graduate students.áThe only prerequisites for this book are familiarity with basic algorithms and data structures (lists, maps, recursion, etc.), a rudimentary knowledge of computer architecture and assembly language, and some experience with the Java programming language.A complete study of compilers could easily fill several graduate-level courses, and therefore some simplifications and compromises are necessary for a one-semester course that is accessible to undergraduate students.áFollowing are some of the decisions made in order to accommodate the goals of this book.The book has a narrow focus as a project-oriented course on compilers.áCompiler theory is kept to a minimum, but the project orientation retains the 'fun' part of studying compilers.The source language being compiled is relatively simple, but it is powerful enough to be interesting and challenging.áIt has basic data types, arrays, procedures, functions, and parameters, but it relegates many other interesting language features to the project exercises.The target language is assembly language for a virtual machine with a stack-based architecture, similar to but much simpler than the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).áThis approach greatly simplifies code generation.áBoth an assembler and an emulator for the virtual machine are provided on the course web site.No special compiler-related tools are required or used within the book.áStudents require access only to a Java compiler and a text editor, but most students will want to use Java with an Integrated Development Environment (IDE).One very important component of a compiler is the parser, which verifies that a source program conforms to the language syntax and produces an intermediate representation of the program that is suitable for additional analysis and code generation.áThere are several different approaches to parsing, but in keeping with the focus on a one-semester course, this book emphasizes only one approach, recursive descent parsing with several lookahead tokens.

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