Engineering a Compiler

Nonfiction, Computers, Advanced Computing, Computer Science, Programming, Software Development, General Computing

• Author: Keith Cooper, Linda Torczon
• ISBN: 9780080916613
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Publication: January 18, 2011
• Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
• Language: English

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