A compiler is a program that translates a source program written in some high-level programming language (such as Java) into machine code for some computer architecture (such as the Intel Pentium architecture). The generated machine code can be later executed many times against different data each time...
Contents (89 pages)
1 Introduction
2 Lexical Analysis
3 Parsing 1
4 Abstract Syntax
5 Semantic Actions
6 Semantic Analysis
7 Activation Records
8 Intermediate Code
9 Basic Blocks and Traces
10 Instruction Selection
11 Liveness Analysis
12 Register Allocation
13 Garbage Collection