Languages and translators [ LINGI2132 ]

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• Rigorous Methods okprogram design (eg INGI1122)
  
• High-level programming language, algorithmics and data structures (eg SINF1121)
• Logic and discrete structures (eg INGI1101)

• Methods to analyze context-free languages, upstream and downstream methods
• Generators of lexical analyzers and parsers
• Statistical semantics and attributed grammars
• Methods to translate a source code in a target code, and generation of target code

Students completing successfully this course will be able to

• explain in a practical way the structure of compilers dealing with algorithmic languages
• design and implement a compiler for a practical language which solves a interesting problem
• show the interest of compiling techniques in problem resolving

Students will have developed skills and operational methodology. In particular, they have developed their ability to

• treat rigorously a problem, justifying and validating each step of a project to be able to rely on it to implement the following one
  

• writen exam
• project

• Lectures
• Pratical sessions
• Project (design and implementation of a compiler)

• Introduction
  
• Formal Languages
• Chomsky's Formal Grammars
• Languages and Regular Expressions, Automata finite set of states
• Lexical Analysis
• Top-down Parsing: general method
• Top-down Parsing based on grammars LL (1)
• Bottom-up Parsing and relations of priorities

Course material available online (course website)

Recommended readings

• N. Wirth , "Compiler Construction" , Addison-Wesley , 1996, 0-201-40353-6.
• Robin Hunter, "The design and construction of compilers" , Wiley, 1981.
• A. V. Aho, R. Sethi, and J. D. Ullman, "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" , Addison-Wesley , 1986.
• A. V. Aho, R. Sethi, and J. D. Ullman, "Compilateurs: principes, techniques et outils" , InterEditions, 1989.
• R. Wilhelm and D. Maurer, "Compiler Design" , Addison-Wesley , 1995.