Reading assignments

• Preface
• Chapter 1 (Introduction)
• Sections 2.0 and 2.1 (Lexical Analysis)
• Sections 3.0 and 3.1 (Parsing)
• Chapter 4 (Abstract Syntax)
• Chapter 5 (Semantic Analysis)
• Context-free grammar of quirk20
• Abstract syntax of quirk20
• Specification of leaf and tail attributes.
• Type rules of quirk19
• Sections 6.0 and 6.1 (Activation Records)
• Sections 13.0 and 13.7 (Garbage Collection)
• Section 7.1, but just the following subsections:
  • a sermon on safety
  • array variables
  • structured L-values
  • subscripting and field selection
  • record and array creation
• Syntax of MacScheme machine assembly language
• Documentation of MacScheme machine assembly language
• Larceny Note #2: Data Representations
• Larceny Note #6: Larceny on the SPARC
• A simple code generator for quirk20
• Sections 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4
• Sections 3.2, 3.4, and 3.5
• ParseGen documentation

Supplementary (optional) readings

• Gordon Bell's slides on the CDC 6600, from "A Seymour Cray Perspective", 10 November 1997.

Last updated 27 February 2003.