This is an archival version of the course.

Next edition: Compiler Construction 2011

Course Information

Week 01, Sep 14:

• Lecture 01: Compiler Phases. Describing Languages (Monday 10:15)
• Labs 01 (Wednesday 8:15)
• Lecture 02: Lexical Analysis (Wednesday 10:15)

Week 02, Sep 21:

• Monday is a holiday
• Labs 02 (Wednesday 8:15)
• Exercises 01 (Wednesday 10:15)
• Homework 01 (due Wednesday in a week at 10:00am)

Week 03, Sep 28:

• Lecture 03: Top-Down Parsing (Monday 10:15)
• Labs 03 (Wednesday 08:15)
• Exercises 02 (Wednesday 10:15)
• Homework 02 (due Wednesday October 7th at 10:00am)

Week 04, Oct 5:

• Lecture 04: Semantic Actions. Parsing General Context-Free Grammars (Monday 10:15)
• Labs 04 (Wednesday 08:15)
• Exercises 03
• Homework 03

Week 05, Oct 12:

• Lecture 05: LR Parsing (Monday 10:15)
• Labs 05 (Wednesday 08:15)
• Exercises 04
• Homework 04

Week 06, Oct 19:

• Lecture 06: Semantic Analysis Intro (Monday 10:15)
• Labs 06 (Wednesday 08:15)
• Exercises 05
• Homework 05

Week 07, Oct 26:

• Lecture 07: Types and Soundness for Lambda Calculus (Monday 10:15)
• Labs 07 (Wednesday 08:15)
• Homework 06

Week 08, Nov 2:

• Lecture 08: Advanced Types. Introduction to Code Generation, Monday 10:15, INM 202
• Lecture 09: Code Generation, Wednesday 08:15-09:45, INM 202
• Labs 08, Wednesday, 10:00-12:00, INF3
• Homework 07

Week 09, Nov 9:

• Lecture 10: More Code Generation
• Exercises 08
• Labs 09, Wednesday, 10:00-12:00, INF3

Week 10, Nov 16:

• Lecture 11: Data-Flow Analysis
• Labs: Personal projects
• Homework 08

Week 11, Nov 23

• Lecture 12: Data-Flow Analysis Correctness, Initialization, Live Vars
• Lecture 13: Compiling to Register Machines
• Labs: work on final part of your compiler

Week 12, Nov 30

• Lecture 14: Advanced Procedures, Heap, SSA, Instruction Selection
• Wednesday: 08:00-12:00 labs

Week 13, Dec 7

• Monday Dec 4, 10:15: Review of Quiz
• Wednesday: 8:00-12:00 review your compiler so far with teaching assistants

Week 14, Dec 14

• Monday, Dec 14: Lecture 15
• Wednesday, 8:00-12:00 End-of-Term Quiz

Deadlines (see also EPFL Academic Calendar):

• Saturday, January 9, 2010: Project Submission (Report and Code)
• project presentations: to be determined

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