CS 4120 - Introduction to Compilers

Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: CS 3110 or permission of instructor and CS 3420 or CS 3410. Corequisite: CS 4121. Co-meets with CS 4121/CS 5120/CS 5121.

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An introduction to the specification and implementation of modern compilers. Topics covered include lexical scanning, parsing, type checking, code generation and translation, an introduction to program analysis and optimization, and compile-time and run-time support for modern programming languages. As part of the course, students will build a working compiler for an object-oriented language.