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1 High-level View of a Compiler Source Compiler Implications Must recognize legal (and illegal) programs Must generate correct Must manage storage of all variables (and ) Must agree with OS & linker on format for object from Cooper & Torczon 1

2 Traditional Two-pass Compiler Source Front End Back End Implications Use an intermediate representation () Front maps legal source into Back maps into target machine Admits multiple front s & multiple passes (better ) Typically, front is O(n) or O(n log n), while back is NPC from Cooper & Torczon 2

3 A Common Fallacy Fortran Front Back Target 1 Scheme Java Front Front Back Target 2 Smalltalk Front Back Target 3 Can we build n x m compilers with n+m components? Must en all language specific knowledge in each front Must en all features in a single Must en all target specific knowledge in each back Limited success in systems with very low-level s from Cooper & Torczon 3

4 The Front End Source Scanner tokens Parser Responsibilities Recognize legal (& illegal) programs Report errors in a useful way Produce & preliminary storage map Shape the for the back Much of front construction can be automated from Cooper & Torczon 4

5 The Front End Source Scanner tokens Parser Scanner Maps character stream into words the basic unit of syntax Produces words & their parts of speech x = x + y ; becomes <id,x> <op,= > <id,x> <op,+ <id,y> ; > word lexeme, part of speech token > In casual speech, we call the pair a token Typical tokens include number, identifier, +, -, while, if Scanner eliminates white space Speed is important use a specialized recognizer from Cooper & Torczon 5

6 The Front End Source Scanner tokens Parser Parser Recognizes context-free syntax & reports errors Guides context-sensitive analysis (type checking) Builds for source program Hand-d parsers are fairly easy to build Most books advocate using automatic parser generators from Cooper & Torczon 6

7 The Front End Compilers often use an abstract syntax tree - + <id,y> The AST summarizes grammatical structure, without including detail about the derivation <id,x> <number,2> This is much more concise ASTs are one form of intermediate representation () from Cooper & Torczon 7

8 The Back End Selection Scheduling Register Allocation Responsibilities Translate into target machine Choose instructions to implement each operation Decide which value to keep in registers Ensure conformance with system interfaces Automation has been much less successful in the back from Cooper & Torczon 8

9 The Back End Selection Scheduling Register Allocation Selection Produce fast, compact Take advantage of target features such as addressing modes Usually viewed as a pattern matching problem > ad hoc methods, pattern matching, dynamic programming This was the problem of the future in 1978 > Spurred by transition from PDP-11 to VAX-11 > Orthogonality of RISC simplified this problem from Cooper & Torczon 9

10 The Back End Selection Scheduling Register Allocation Scheduling Avoid hardware stalls and interlocks Use all functional units productively Can increase lifetime of variables (changing the allocation) Optimal scheduling is NP-Complete in nearly all cases Good heuristic techniques are well understood from Cooper & Torczon 10

11 The Back End Selection Scheduling Register Allocation Register allocation Have each value in a register when it is used Manage a limited set of resources Can change instruction choices & insert LOADs & STOREs Optimal allocation is NP-Complete (1 or k registers) Compilers approximate solutions to NP-Complete problems from Cooper & Torczon 11

12 Traditional Three-pass Compiler Source Code Front End Middle End Back End Code Improvement (or Optimization) Analyzes and rewrites (or transforms) Primary goal is to reduce running time of the compiled > May also improve space, power consumption, Must preserve meaning of the > Measured by values of named variables from Cooper & Torczon 12

13 The Optimizer (or Middle End) Opt Opt Opt... Opt n Modern optimizers are structured as a series of passes Typical Transformations Discover & propagate some constant value Move a computation to a less frequently executed place Discover a redundant computation & remove it Remove useless or unreachable from Cooper & Torczon 13

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