Literature and Other Resources

Andrew W. Appel, Modern Compiler Implementation in C, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-521-58390-X (reprinted with corrections, 1999; reissued, 2004).

It can be bought in the bookstore.

Errata etc. can be found via the book home page.

Supplementary literature and material

• If you do not already know the C programming language, you are recommended to purchase the following book:

  Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, The C Programming Language, 2. eds., Prentice Hall, 1988.

  As a (less good, but free) alternative one can use the WWW-book by Holmes.

• Ghostview, viewer for postscript (ps) documents (Windows/Linux).

• GNU Make, version 3.77: ps, html.

• Flex, version 2.5.4 - A Fast Scanner Generator: ps.

• LaTeX introduction, LaTeX Manual, The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX.

• It is possible to make somewhat nicer LaTeX-integrated inclusions of programs into the report using specialized software: CTAN site.

• Bison - The YACC-Compatible Parser Generator.

• The style file bnf.sty can be a help in type setting the grammar: bnf.sty, LaTeX-example.

• Karen Miller, An Assembly Language Introduction to Computer Architecture - using the Intel Pentium, Oxford University Press, New York, 1999, kapitel 10 (hand-outs at the lecture).

• Differences between Intel and ATT syntax.

• GNU Assembler Manual.

• GNU Assembler Program Examples.

• Handling division in GAS: div.c, div.s.

• Suggestion for a stack frame layout: pdf, ps.

• Suggestion for "abstract" assembler code: pdf, ps.

• Examples of code generation templates: pdf, ps.

• A note on lattices and fixed points.