CS 412/413
Introduction to Compilers
Cornell University Computer Science Department, Spring 2001

Announcements

Results from the benchmark competition are now available.  There were a number of impressive compiler projects, but ultimately the course staff chose Group 4 (Hertzberg/Jensen/Khoo/Potocky) as the winner of the Best Compiler Project award.

Administration

• Course overview
• Newsgroup: cornell.class.cs412
• Course schedule and lecture notes
• Mail the course staff at cs412@cs.cornell.edu
• Homework assignments
• Course staff information
• Textbook and Prerequisites
• Group assignments
• Student experience statistics
• CS 412 '00 home page

Iota Language Information

• Iota⁺ language definition, Static semantics
• Iota language definition, Static semantics
• Language definition change log
• Example programs: Iota, Iota⁺
• MMII GUI library

Project Advice

• About Programming Assignments
• Notes on Programming Style
• Developing Software in Groups
• How to Lose in CS412

CSUGLab HowTo's

• Using CVS in CSUGLab
• Compiling from the command line, and JLex and CUP JAR files
• Various fonts used in the lecture notes. Fonts may be used for this class but not distributed.

Outside Resources

• JLex home page
• CUP home page
• Errata list: corrections to errors in the Tiger book (compiled by Andrew Appel)
• Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual
1. Basic Architecture
2. Instruction Set Reference
3. System Programming Guide
• Pentium 4 Processor Optimization Manual
• Microsoft Calling Conventions (see __cdecl)
• MASM user manuals are also available for the borrowing