UCLA CS 132 Compiler Construction Fall 2004

• Time and place: Mon, Wed 2:00-3:50pm, 2444 Boelter Hall.
• Professor: Jens Palsberg, 4531K Boelter Hall (palsberg@ucla.edu).
• Teaching assistants: Ben Titzer, Kevin Chang, and Vidyut Samanta.
• Office hours (in 4810 BH) . Ben: Mon 12-2, Tue 2-4; Kevin: Mon 1-2, Wed 1-2, Thu 1-3.
• Discussion website.
• Book: Andrew Appel with Jens Palsberg, Modern Compiler Implementation in Java , 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Paper: Massimiliano Poletto and Vivek Sarkar, Linear Scan Register Allocation, ACM TOPLAS 21(5):895-913, 1999.
• Software.
• Lectures: (Lecture Notes, black and white)

  1.	Mon Oct 4, Wed Oct 6: Introduction, lexical analysis. Appel Ch. 1-2, Notes Ch. 1-2.
  2.	Mon Oct 11, Wed Oct 13: LL parsing. Appel Ch. 3.1-3.2, Notes Ch. 3.
  3.	Mon Oct 18: JavaCC and JTB. Notes Ch. 5.
  4.	Wed Oct 20, Mon Oct 25: Semantic analysis. Appel Ch. 5+14, Notes Ch. 6.
  5.	Mon Nov 1, Wed Nov 3: Translation, simplification. Appel Ch. 7, 8, Notes Ch. 7.
  6.	Mon Nov 8: Liveness analysis. Appel Ch. 10, Notes Ch. 8.
  7.	Wed Nov 10, Mon Nov 15: Register allocation. Appel Ch. 11, Notes Ch. 8, the paper on linear scan register allocation.
  8.	Wed Nov 17: Activation records. Appel Ch. 6, Notes Ch. 9.
  9.	Mon Nov 29: LR parsing. Appel Ch 3.3, Notes Ch. 4.
  10.	Wed Dec 1: Type systems.
  11.	Mon Dec 6: Control-flow analysis.
  12.	Wed Dec 8: Review.

• Homework: homework 1, homeworks 2-6.
• Deadlines: (how to submit; grading policies; late homework will not be accepted)

  1.	LL(1) parsing	5 %,	due Thu Oct 21, at Noon.
  2.	Type checking of MiniJava	10 %,	due Thu Nov 4, at Noon.
  3.	MiniJava -> Piglet	10 %,	due Wed Nov 24, at Noon.
  4.	Piglet -> Spiglet	10 %,	due Wed Nov 24, at Noon.
  5.	Spiglet -> Kanga	10 %,	due Thu Dec 9, at Noon.
  6.	Kanga -> MIPS	10 %,	due Thu Dec 9, at Noon.

• Midterm exam (15 %), solution. Wed Oct 27, 2:00-3:30 pm, in class. Closed book. The midterm exam covers the book (ch.3.1-3.2) and the lecture notes (ch.3).
• Final exam (30 %), solution. Wed Dec 15, 11:30am-2:30pm. Closed book. The final exam covers the book (ch.5-8,10,11), the lecture notes (ch.6-9), the paper on linear scan register allocation, and homework 2-6.