1. CMPUT 680 - Compiler Design and Optimization
CMPUT680 - Winter 2001
Topic0: Introduction
José Nelson Amaral
CMPUT Compiler Design and Optimization

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Admin. Information
Instructor: Prof. Jose Nelson Amaral
Office ATH 351
Phone
Office Hours: Anytime (appointment suggested but not required)
webpage:
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Important Dates
January 22 (Tuesday) : project assignment
February 05 (Tuesday) : project interview
February 14 (Thursday) : project proposal
March 12 (Tuesday) : project progress report
April 09 (Tuesday) : exam (tentative)
April (Tuesday) : project presentations (tentative)
April 23 (Tuesday) : final written project reports
Course work will carry the following weights towards your final grade:
Homework, Lab and Class Presentations: 30%
Quiz: 30%
Project: 40%
CMPUT Compiler Design and Optimization

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Bibliography
1. A set of papers - to be assigned
2. Books:
Randy Allen, Ken Kennedy, Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures: A Dependence-based Approach, Morgan Kauffman, 2001.
Andrew W. Appel : Modern Compiler Implementation in C
A. Aho, R. Sethi and J. Ullman, Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools (The Dragon Book), Addison Wesley, 1988
M. Wolfe, High Performance Compilers of Parallel Computing, Addison Wesley, 1995
S. Muchnick, Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation, Morgan Kaufman, 1997
CMPUT Compiler Design and Optimization

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Bibliography
CMPUT Compiler Design and Optimization

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Bibliography
3. Journals
IEEE Computer
Transactions on Computers
Concurrency
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
ACM TOPLAS - Transactions on Programming
Languages and Systems
Transaction on Computer Systems
JPDC Journal of Parallel and Distributed computing
JSC Journal of Supercomputing
JPP International Journal of Parallel Programming
PC Parallel Computing (North-Holland)
JPL J. of Programming Languages
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Bibliography
4. Conference Proceedings
PLDI ACM Symposium on Programming Language Design and Implementation
POPL ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
PPOPP ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
ICPP International Conference on Parallel Processing
ICS International Conference on Supercomputing
LCPC Intern. WS. on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing
PACT Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (since 1994)
IPPS International Parallel Processing Symposium
EUROPAR European Parallel Processing Conferences
MICRO ACM/IEEE Symposium on Microarchitectures
ISCA ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture
ASPLOS ACM Symposium on Architecture Support for Program Languages and Operating Systems
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8. Structure of an Optimizing Compiler
source code
compiler front-end
intermediate code
loop optimization
register allocation
code generation
code scheduling
machine code
CMPUT Compiler Design and Optimization

9. Phases of a Compiler Source program Intermediate-code Generator
Lexical Analyzer (Scanner)
Non-optimized Intermediate Code
Tokens
Intermediate-code Optimizer
Syntax Analyzer (Parser)
Optimized Intermediate Code
Parse tree
Target-code Generator
Semantic Analyzer
Abstract Syntax Tree w/ Attributes
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Target machine code

10. Two models of compiler structures
Low-level Model
Mixed-level Model
String of characters
String of tokens
Parse tree
Abstract Syntax tree
Medium-level intermediate code
Low-level intermediate code
Relocatable object module or
runnable machine code
Lexical
analyzer
Abstract syntax tree
Low-level intermediate code
Relocatable object module or
runnable machine code
String of characters
String of tokens
Parse tree
Lexical
analyzer
Parser
Parser
Semantic
analyzer
Semantic
analyzer
Intermediate-code
generator
Translator
Optimizer
Optimizer
Code generator
Final
assembly
Postpass
optimizer
Two models of compiler structures
(Muchnick, pp. 08)

11. Course Teaching Sequence
2. Lexical
Analysis
3. Parsing
4. Abstract
Syntax
5. Semantic
Analysis
6. Activation
Records
7. Translation to
Intermediate Code
8. Basic Blocks
and traces
1. Introduction
9. Instruction
Selection
12. Putting it
All Together
10. Liveness
Analysis
11. Register
Allocation
17. Dataflow
Analysis
18. Loop
Optimizations
19. Static Single-
Assignment
Form
15. Functional
Languages
16. Polymorphic
Types
20. Pipelining,
Scheduling
13. Garbage
Collection
14. Object-Oriented
Languages
21. Memory
Hierarchies
Course Teaching Sequence
(Appel, pp. x)

12. Phases of a compiler, and interfaces between them
Environ-
ments
Tables
Parsing
Actions
Semantic
Analysis
Canon-
icalize
Instruction
Selection
Source Program
Lex
Token
Parse
Reductions
Abstract Syntax
Translate
Translate
IR Trees
IR Trees
Assem
Frame
Frame
Layout
Control
Flow
Analysis
Data
Flow
Analysis
Relocatable Object Code
Assem
Flow Graph
Interference Graph
Register
Allocation
Register Assignment
Code
Emission
Assembly Language
Assembler
Machine Language
Linker
Phases of a compiler, and interfaces between them
(Appel, pp. 4)

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