CS 6013 - Modern Compilers - Theory and Practice

• Time and Place: F slot. Class room: SSB 334
• Teacher : V. Krishna Nandivada
• Office hours / Doubt sessions : Anytime.
• TA : Sudeep Choudhary (online classes), Ramya Kasaraneni (online classes), Omkar Dhawal (in-person classes), Yuvraj Thalukdar (in-person classes)
• Office hours / Doubt sessions : Fix a time by sending an email.
  

• Course outline.
• Software, documentation and tools link is here.
• Submission guidelines.
• Discussion website is here (access restricted).
• Texts:
  • Book 1: Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation: Steven Muchnick, 1998.
  • Book 2: Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools: A V Aho, Monical Lam, R Sethi, J D Ullman, 2005.
  • Book 3: Principles of Program Analysis: Flemming Nielson, Hanne Riis Nielson, Chris Hankin, Springer, 2006.
  • Book 4: Modern compiler implementation in Java, Second Edition, Andrew W. Appel, Jens Palsberg, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Book 5: The Java programming language, Arnold, Gosling and Holmes, Addison-Wesley, 2005. Also see the online manuals in the documentation section.

• Two LH. Introduction, overview of lexical and syntax analysis.
• Two LH. JavaCC, Visitor Pattern and JTB + Hands on session.
• Six LH. Symbol Table Creation and IR Generation.
• Six LH. Data Flow Analysis, constant propagation, conditional constant propagation.
• Six LH. Control Flow Analysis and optimizations (forward dataflow analysis).

Written Exams:

• Mid Term exam (20%) on Mar 07 2026, 09.00am. Closed book, closed notes, closed neighbor.
• Final exam 40% on Apr 25 2026, 09.00am. Closed book, Closed notes, closed neighbor.