SEP700 - Compiler Design

Subject Title
Compiler Design

Subject Description
The structure, organization and design of the phases of a compiler are considered. A compiler translates code written in one computer language into a language understandable by the computer hardware without changing the meaning of the program. Students gain knowledge of the scope handlers and type checkers and learn to implement components of a compiler. Compiler design is also applicable to other areas of software engineering such as a lexical analyzer used in text editors, information retrieval system, and pattern recognition programs or a parser used in a query processing system such as SQL, for example. Many software having a complex front-end may need techniques used in compiler design.

Credit Status
1 Credit 

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject the student will be able to:

1.    Arrange tokens from the source code as the first stage in the creation of an executable binary.
2.    Construct a data structure based on tokens for the compiler in the creation of an executable program.
3.    Test the syntax of source code for suitability to the grammar of the computer language.
4.    Assess compiler symbols, their types and their relations with each other for program correctness.
5.    Construct middle-level language code to connect source code to the assembly language code for a given hardware.
6.    Organize memory according to the source code for faster access time and less capacity.
7.     Design high-level and low-level optimizations to enhance execution performance.

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