Introduction to compiler construction in a Java world. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bill Campbell, Swami Iyer, Bahar Akbal-Delibas.
• Other Names: Campbell, Bill, 1950-; Iyer, Swami; Akbal-Delibas, Bahar
• Contents: Compilation; Compilers; Why Should We Study Compilers?; How Does a Compiler Work? The Phases of Compilation; An Overview of the j -- to JVM Compiler; The j -- Compiler Source Tree; The Organization of This Book Lexical Analysis; Introduction; Scanning Tokens; Regular Expressions; Finite State Automata; Nondeterministic Finite-State Automata (NFA) vs. Deterministic Finite-State Automata (DFA); Regular Expressions to NFA; NFA to DFA; A Minimal DFA; JavaCC: A Tool for Generating Scanners Parsing; Introduction; Context-Free Grammars and Languages; Top-down Deterministic Parsing; Bottom-up Deterministic Parsing; Parser Generation Using JavaCC Type Checking; Introduction; The j --Types; j -- Symbol Tables; Pre-Analysis of j -- Programs; Analysis of j -- Programs; The Visitor Pattern and the AST Traversal Mechanism; Programming Language Design and Symbol Table Structure; Attribute Grammars JVM Code Generation; Introduction; Generating Code for Classes and Their Members; Generating Code for Control and Logical Expressions; Generating Code for Message Expressions, Field Selection and Array Expressions; Generating Code for Assignment and Similar Operations; Generating Code for String Concatenation; Generating Code for Casts Translating JVM Code to MIPS Code; Introduction; SPIM and the MIPS Architecture; Our Translator Register Allocation; Introduction; Naïve Register Allocation; Local Register Allocation; Global Register Allocation Celebrity Compilers; Introduction; The Java HotSpot Compiler; The Eclipse Compiler for Java (ECJ); The GNU Java Compiler (GCJ); Microsoft C# Compiler for .NET Framework Appendix A: Setting Up and Running j --; Appendix B: The j -- Language; Appendix C: Java Syntax; Appendix D: The JVM, Class Files and the CLEmitter; Appendix E: MIPS and the SPIM Simulator Bibliography Index Further Readings and Exercises appear at the end of each chapter.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 005.453; Compilers (Computer programs); Java (Computer program language)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482215076; 1482215071
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