UCLA CS 132 Compiler Construction Fall 2006

• Time and place: Mon, Wed 2:00-3:50pm, 2760 Boelter Hall.
• Professor: Jens Palsberg, 4531K Boelter Hall (palsberg@ucla.edu).
• Teaching assistants: David Jurgens (4817 Boelter Hall, until the TA Office reopens), Jonathan Lee (4810 Boelter Hall).
• Office hours. Jens: Mon+Wed 4:00-4:30. Jonathan: Mon+Tue: 1-2. David: Wed 4-5, Thu 9:30 - 10:30.
• The discussion website is on CourseWeb (go to Computer Science, CS 132, Forum).
• 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 2, Wed Oct 4: Introduction, lexical analysis. Appel Ch. 1-2, Notes Ch. 1-2.
  2.	Mon Oct 9, Wed Oct 11: LL parsing. Appel Ch. 3.1-3.2, Notes Ch. 3.
  3.	Mon Oct 16: JavaCC and JTB. Notes Ch. 5.
  4.	Wed Oct 18, Mon Oct 23: Semantic analysis. Appel Ch. 5+14, Notes Ch. 6.
  5.	Wed Oct 25, Mon Oct 30: Translation, simplification. Appel Ch. 7, 8, Notes Ch. 7.
  6.	Wed Nov 1: Liveness analysis. Appel Ch. 10, Notes Ch. 8.
  7.	Wed Nov 8, Mon Nov 13: Register allocation. Appel Ch. 11, Notes Ch. 8, the paper on linear scan register allocation.
  8.	Wed Nov 15: Activation records. Appel Ch. 6, Notes Ch. 9.
  9.	Mon Nov 20: LR parsing. Appel Ch 3.3, Notes Ch. 4.
  10.	Mon Nov 27: Type systems.
  11.	Mon Dec 4: Control-flow analysis.
  12.	Wed Dec 6, 3-4pm: 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 19, at Noon.
  2.	Type checking of MiniJava	10 %,	due Mon Nov 13, at Noon.
  3.	MiniJava -> Piglet	10 %,	due Wed Nov 22, at Noon.
  4.	Piglet -> Spiglet	10 %,	due Wed Nov 22, at Noon.
  5.	Spiglet -> Kanga	10 %,	due Thu Dec 7, at Noon.
  6.	Kanga -> MIPS	10 %,	due Thu Dec 7, at Noon.

• Midterm exam (15 %), solution. Mon Nov 6, 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. Fri Dec 15, 8-11am, in class. 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.