Ebook: Practical Compiler Construction

Practical Compiler Construction is an advanced programming textbook and a compiler-writing primer. Some programming skills are required, but no prior knowledge in the field of compiler construction is necessary.

Study the heavily annotated source code of a full compiler for a subset of the C programming language generating code for the popular 386 processor. Learn about the practice of:

- Lexical analysis (scanning)
- Syntax analysis (parsing)
- Semantic analysis
- Code generation
- Runtime support (libraries)

Extend your theoretical background by learning about the foundations and applications of

- Scan trees
- Formal grammars
- Abstract programs
- Code generation models
- Program transformation

Finally, have a look at more advanced compilation techniques such as

- Code synthesis
- Abstract program optimization
- Peephole optimization
- Common subexpression elimination