Engineering a Compiler, 2nd Edition

Hardcover: 824 pages
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 2nd Edition (February 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 012088478X
ISBN-13: 978-0120884780

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This entirely revised second edition of Engineering a Compiler is full of technical updates and new material covering the latest developments in compiler technology. In this comprehensive text you will learn important techniques for constructing a modern compiler. Leading educators and researchers Keith Cooper and Linda Torczon combine basic principles with pragmatic insights from their experience building state-of-the-art compilers. They will help you fully understand important techniques such as compilation of imperative and object-oriented languages, construction of static single assignment forms, instruction scheduling, and graph-coloring register allocation.

In-depth treatment of algorithms and techniques used in the front end of a modern compiler
Focus on code optimization and code generation, the primary areas of recent research and development
Improvements in presentation including conceptual overviews for each chapter, summaries and review questions for sections, and prominent placement of definitions for new terms
Examples drawn from several different programming languages

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Overview of Compilation
Chapter 2. Scanners
Chapter 3. Parsers
Chapter 4. Context-Sensitive Analysis
Chapter 5. Intermediate Representations
Chapter 6. The Procedure Abstraction
Chapter 7. Code Shape
Chapter 8. Introduction to Optimization
Chapter 9. Data-Flow Analysis
Chapter 10. Scalar Optimizations
Chapter 11. Instruction Selection
Chapter 12. Instruction Scheduling
Chapter 13. Register Allocation