CS 6013 - Modern Compilers - Theory and Practice

Goal of the course: At the end of the course, students will have a fair understanding of some standard passes in a general purpose compiler. Students will have hands on experience on implementing a few program analyses and optimization techniques.

Time and Place: F slot. Class room: SSB 334
Teacher : V. Krishna Nandivada
Office hours / Doubt sessions : Anytime.
TA : 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.

Slides for the Lectures:

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, IR generation for OO languages.

Assignment	What?	Credit	Start date	Mid-Eval date	Due-date
P1	Identify Uninitialized Variables	10%	11 Feb 2026	17 Feb 2026	02 Mar 2026, 11:59PM
P2	IR Generation	10%	03 Mar 2026	10 Mar 2026	31 Mar 2026, 11:59PM
P3	Conditional Constant Propagation	10%	31 Mar 2026	13 Apr 2026	20 Apr 2026, 11:59PM
P4	Function Inlining	10%	21 Apr 2026	24 Apr 2026,	12 May 2026, 11:59PM

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.

Last updated: Tue Jan 20 12:36:15 IST 2026