CS 5120 - Introduction to Compilers

Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: CS 3110 or permission of instructor, CS 3420 or CS 3410. Corequisite: CS 5121. Co-meets with CS 4120.

A. Myers.

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.