CS134b: Compiler Design Laboratory

Course Description
This course is an overview of the internal structure of modern compilers, with an emphasis on implementation techniques. Topics covered include lexical scanning, parsing techniques, static type checking, code generation, dataflow analysis and other optimization techniques, storage management, and execution environments. As part of the course, you will build a working compiler.

Web Page
The course web page is located at http://www.cs.caltech.edu/cources/cs134/cs134b. All course materials will be available at this site.

Course Meetings
Lectures are currently being held in 74 Jorgensen, MWF 2-3pm. Attendance at lecture is expected. The lectures will complement rather than replicate material in the textbook.

Teaching Staff
The best way to reach the course staff is by sending mail to cs134-admin@metaprl.org. Please include cs134 in the Subject line.

Name	Title	Email	Office	Office Hours
Jason Hickey	Asst Professor	jyh@cs.caltech.edu	260 Jorgenson	MW 3-4pm
Justin Smith	TA	justins@cs.caltech.edu	160D Jorgensen	Thu 8-9pm
Suleyman Gokygit	TA	sg@cs.caltech.edu	66 Jorgensen	Thu 3-4pm
Adam Granicz	TA	granicz@cs.caltech.edu	158 Jorgensen	Tue 2-3pm

Required Reading
Modern Compiler Implementation in ML. Andrew Appel. Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-521-58274-1.

Other Reading
Compilers -- Principles, Techniques and Tools. Aho, Sethi and Ullman. Addison-Wesley, 1988. ISBN 0-201-10088-6. (The Dragon Book)

Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation. Steve Muchnick. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. ISBN 1-558-60320-4.

Mail lists

There are several mail lists you can use to discuss the course material.

• cs134-admin@metaprl.org: this is the course administration. If you have personal questions or problems, you can send mail to this address.
• cs134-labs@metaprl.org: this is a mailing list for discussion about that labs. To subscribe to this list, send a message (containing anything) to cs134-labs-subscribe@metaprl.org. The list is mirrored through the course web site. For help about list administration, send mail to cs134-labs-help@metaprl.org.
• cs134-cvs@metaprl.org: if you want to get messages whenever we update the CVS sources for the cmpiler, subscribe to this list.

Assignments and Grading
The compiler project is divided up into five programming assignments that are due at various points throughout the term. Compiler projects will be performed by groups of two or three students. The same groups will be maintained throughout the semester.

Programming assignments are due online.

The breakdown of points per assignment is as follows:

Programming Assignment 1	10
Programming Assignment 2	20
Programming Assignment 3	20
Programming Assignment 4	20
Programming Assignment 5	30