Compiler Construction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction and Overview

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   Pages 1-14

3. Properties of Programming Languages

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   Pages 15-45

4. Properties of Real and Abstract Machines

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   Pages 46-84

5. Abstract Program Representations

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   Pages 85-101

6. Elements of Formal Systems

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   Pages 102-134

7. Lexical Analysis

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   Pages 135-148

8. Parsing

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   Pages 149-182

9. Attribute Grammars

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   Pages 183-219

10. Semantic Analysis

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    Pages 220-252

11. Code Generation

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    Pages 253-281

12. Assembly

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    Pages 282-301

13. Error Handling

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    Pages 302-325

14. Optimization

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    Pages 326-357

15. Implementing the Compiler

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    Pages 358-382

16. Back Matter

    Pages 382-447

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Compilers and operating systems constitute the basic interfaces between a programmer and the machine for which he is developing software. In this book we are concerned with the construction of the former. Our intent is to provide the reader with a firm theoretical basis for compiler construction and sound engineering principles for selecting alternate methods, imple­ menting them, and integrating them into a reliable, economically viable product. The emphasis is upon a clean decomposition employing modules that can be re-used for many compilers, separation of concerns to facilitate team programming, and flexibility to accommodate hardware and system constraints. A reader should be able to understand the questions he must ask when designing a compiler for language X on machine Y, what tradeoffs are possible, and what performance might be obtained. He should not feel that any part of the design rests on whim; each decision must be based upon specific, identifiable characteristics of the source and target languages or upon design goals of the compiler. The vast majority of computer professionals will never write a compiler. Nevertheless, study of compiler technology provides important benefits for almost everyone in the field . • It focuses attention on the basic relationships between languages and machines. Understanding of these relationships eases the inevitable tran­ sitions to new hardware and programming languages and improves a person's ability to make appropriate tradeoft's in design and implementa­ tion .

• Clean
• algorithms
• compiler
• constraint
• data structures
• programming language
• selection

• Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

  William M. Waite

• Institut für Informatik II, Universität Karlsruhe, West Germany

  Gerhard Goos

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