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Practical Compiler Construction is an advanced programming textbook and a compiler-writing primer. Some programming skills are required, but no prior knowledge in the field of compiler construction is necessary.
Study the heavily annotated source code of a full compiler for a subset of the C programming language generating code for the popular 386 processor. Learn about the practice of
- Lexical analysis (scanning)
- Syntax analysis (parsing)
- Semantic analysis
- Code generation
- Runtime support (libraries)
Extend your theoretical background by learning about the foundations and applications of
- Scan trees
- Formal grammars
- Abstract programs
- Code generation models
- Program transformation
Finally, have a look at more advanced compilation techniques such as
- Code synthesis
- Abstract program optimization
- Peephole optimization
- Common subexpression elimination
- Lulu Press, 2012
- 390 pages
- 33 figures
- Handy 6" x 9" format
- Public domain code