UCLA CS 132 Compiler Construction Spring 2008

• Time and place: Mon, Wed 2:00-3:50pm, DODD 170.
• Professor: Jens Palsberg, 4531K Boelter Hall (palsberg@ucla.edu).
• Teaching assistants: David Jurgens (TA Office), Sean Soria (TA Office).
• Office hours. Jens: Mon 4:00-5:00pm. David: Tue+Thu 12-1pm. Sean: Wed 11:30am-1:30pm.
• 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 Mar 31, Wed Apr 2: Introduction, lexical analysis. Appel Ch. 1-2, Notes Ch. 1-2.
  2.	Mon Apr 7, Wed Apr 9: LL parsing. Appel Ch. 3.1-3.2, Notes Ch. 3.
  3.	Mon Apr 14: JavaCC and JTB. Notes Ch. 5.
  4.	Wed Apr 16, Mon Apr 21: Semantic analysis. Appel Ch. 5+14, Notes Ch. 6.
  5.	Wed Apr 23, Mon Apr 28: Translation, simplification. Appel Ch. 7, 8, Notes Ch. 7.
  6.	Wed Apr 30: Liveness analysis. Appel Ch. 10, Notes Ch. 8.
  7.	Mon May 5: Review of Midterm material.
  8.	Mon May 12, Wed May 14: Register allocation. Appel Ch. 11, Notes Ch. 8, the paper on linear scan register allocation.
  9.	Mon May 19: Activation records. Appel Ch. 6, Notes Ch. 9.
  10.	Wed May 21: LR parsing. Appel Ch 3.3, Notes Ch. 4.
  11.	Wed May 28: Type systems.
  12.	Mon Jun 2: Control-flow analysis.
  13.	Wed Jun 4: Review.

• Homework: homework 1, homeworks 2-6.
• Submit your homework via CourseWeb; grading policies.
• Deadlines: (late homework will not be accepted)

  1.	LL(1) parsing	5 %,	due Thu Apr 17, at Noon.
  2.	Type checking of MiniJava	10 %,	due Mon May 5, at Noon.
  3.	MiniJava -> Piglet	10 %,	due Thu May 22, at Noon.
  4.	Piglet -> Spiglet	10 %,	due Thu May 22, at Noon.
  5.	Spiglet -> Kanga	10 %,	due Thu Jun 5, at Noon.
  6.	Kanga -> MIPS	10 %,	due Thu Jun 5, at Noon.

• Midterm exam (15 %), solution. Wed May 7, 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 to be posted. Wed Jun 11, 11:30-2:30 pm, 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.