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Introduction xxi
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Goals and Approach 1
What Are Compilers and Interpreters? 2
Comparing Compilers and Interpreters 4
The Picture Gets a Bit Fuzzy 5
Why Study Compiler Writing? 6
Conceptual Design 6
Syntax and Semantics 8
Lexical, Syntax, and Semantic Analyses 10
Chapter 2 Framework I: Compiler and Interpreter 11
Goals and Approach 11
Language-Independent Framework Components 12
Front End 13
Parser 16
Intermediate Tier 34
Back End 36
Pascal-Specific Front End Components 37
Pascal Parser 37
Pascal Scanner 39
A Front End Factory 41
Initial Back End Implementations 43
Interpreter 44
A Back End Factory 45
Program 2: Program Listings 46
Chapter 3 Scanning 55
Goals and Approach 55
Program 3: Pascal Tokenizer 57
Syntax Error Handling 65
How to Scan for Tokens 72
A Pascal Scanner 75
Pascal Tokens 77
Syntax Diagrams 80
Word Tokens 81
String Tokens 82
Special Symbol Tokens 85
Number Tokens 88
Chapter 4 The Symbol Table 97
Goals and Approach 97
Symbol Table Conceptual Design 98
The Symbol Table Stack 98
Symbol Table Interfaces 100
A Symbol Table Factory 105
Symbol Table Implementation 107
Program 4: Pascal Cross-Referencer I 113
Chapter 5 Parsing Expressions and Assignment Statements 121
Goals and Approach 121
Syntax Diagrams 122
Intermediate Code Conceptual Design 125
Intermediate Code Interfaces 126
An Intermediate Code Factory 129
Intermediate Code Implementation 130
Printing Parse Trees 135
Parsing Pascal Statements and Expressions 141
Parsing Statements 145
Parsing the Compound Statement 148
Parsing the Assignment Statement 149
Parsing Expressions 151
Program 5: Pascal Syntax Checker I 161
Chapter 6 Interpreting Expressions and Assignment Statements 167
Goals and Approach 167
Runtime Error Handling 168
Executing Assignment Statements and Expressions 170
The Statement Executor Subclasses 170
Executing Statements 173
Executing the Compound Statement 175
Executing the Assignment Statement 175
Executing Expressions 177
Program 6: Simple Interpreter I 184
Chapter 7 Parsing Control Statements 189
Goals and Approach 189
Syntax Diagrams 190
Error Recovery 191
Program 7: Syntax Checker II 192
Control Statement Parsers 193
Parsing Pascal Control Statements 198
Parsing the REPEAT Statement 198
Parsing the WHILE Statement 202
Parsing the FOR Statement 207
Parsing the IF Statement 214
Parsing the CASE Statement 219
Chapter 8 Interpreting Control Statements 233
Goals and Approach 233
Program 8: Simple Interpreter II 233
Interpreting Control Statements 234
Executing a Looping Statement 236
Executing the IF Statement 240
Executing the SELECT Statement 241
An Optimized SELECT Executor 245
Chapter 9 Parsing Declarations 249
Goals and Approach 249
Pascal Declarations 250
Types and the Symbol Table 253
Type Specification Interfaces 253
Pascal Type Specification Implementation 255
A Type Factory 260
Scope and the Symbol Table Stack 261
How Identifiers Are Defined 266
Predefined Types and Constants 268
Parsing Pascal Declarations 271
Parsing Constant Definitions 277
Parsing Type Definitions and Type Specifications 283
Parsing Variable Declarations 301
Program 9: Pascal Cross-Referencer II 306
Chapter 10 Type Checking 331
Goals and Approach 331
Type Checking 331
Type Checking Expressions 335
Type Checking Control Statements 350
Program 10: Pascal Syntax Checker III 358
Chapter 11 Parsing Programs, Procedures, and Functions 371
Goals and Approach 371
Program, Procedure, and Function Declarations 372
Nested Scopes and the Symbol Table Stack 375
New Declarations Parser Subclasses 378
Parsing a Program Declaration 382
Parsing Procedure and Function Declarations 382
Formal Parameter Lists 388
Parsing Procedure and Function Calls 394
Calls to Declared Procedures and Functions 398
Calls to the Standard Procedures and Functions 400
Actual Parameter Lists 408
Program 11: Pascal Syntax Checker IV 418
Chapter 12 Interpreting Pascal Programs 431
Goals and Approach 431
Runtime Memory Management 432
The Runtime Stack and Activation Records 432
The Runtime Display 436
Recursive Calls 439
Memory Management Interfaces and Implementation 440
The Memory Factory 459
Executing Statements and Expressions 460
The Executor Superclass 461
The Statement Executor 462
The Assignment and Expression Executors 469
Executing Procedure and Function Calls 478
Parameter Passing 478
Calling Procedures and Functions 478
Program 12-1: Pascal Interpreter 493
Chapter 13 An Interactive Source-Level Debugger 501
Goals and Approach 501
Machine-Level vs. Source-Level Debugging 502
Debugger Architecture 503
Runtime Data Input vs. Debugger Command Input 514
Creating a Command-Line Debugger 516
A Simple Command Language 517
Displaying Values 522
Parsing VariableNames 525
Executing Commands 529
Program 13-1: Command-Line Source-Level Debugger 540
Chapter 14 Framework II: An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 543
Goals and Approach 544
The IDE Window 544
The Edit Window 545
The Debug Window 545
The Call Stack Window 547
The Console Window 548
Program 14: Pascal IDE 548
The IDE Process and the Debugger Process 549
The IDE Framework 549
Interprocess Communication 550
The Control Interface 560
The Debugger Process 566
Chapter 15 Jasmin Assembly Language and Code Generation for the Java Virtual Machine 577
Goals and Approach 577
Organization of the Java Virtual Machine 578
The Class Area 578
The Heap Area 579
The Java Runtime Stack 579
JVM Limitations 580
The Jasmin Assembly Language 581
Assembly Statements 581
Program Structure 593
Emitting Instructions 604
Load and Store Instructions 607
Data Manipulation Instructions 617
Control Instructions 620
Remaining Code Generation Methods 623
Chapter 16 Compiling Programs, Assignment Statements, and Expressions 625
Goals and Approach 625
Compiling Programs 626
Program Header 627
Class Constructor 627
Fields 627
Main Method 628
Code Generator Subclasses 629
Compiling Procedures and Functions 635
Parser and Symbol Table Changes 637
Generating Code for Procedures and Functions 639
Compiling Assignment Statements and Expressions 643
The Statement Code Generator 643
The Compound Statement Code Generator 645
The Assignment Statement Code Generator 646
The Expression Code Generator 648
The Pascal Runtime Library 655
Range Checking 655
Pascal Text Input 656
Building the Library 657
Program 16-1: Pascal Compiler I 657
Chapter 17 Compiling Procedure and Function Calls and String Operations 661
Goals and Approach 661
Compiling Procedure and Function Calls 662
Value Parameters and VAR Parameters 664
Calls to Declared Procedures and Functions 666
Calls to the Standard Procedures and Functions 678
The Pascal Runtime Library 691
Pascal Input Text 692
Building the Library 697
Compiling Strings and String Assignments 698
Allocating String Variables 698
String Assignments 701
String Comparisons 705
Program 17-1: Pascal Compiler II 711
Chapter 18 Compiling Control Statements, Arrays, and Records 719
Goals and Approach 719
Compiling Control Statements 719
Looping Statements 720
The IF Statement 730
The SELECT Statement 735
Compiling Arrays and Subscripted Variables 744
Allocating Memory for Arrays 744
Subscripted Variables in Expressions and Assignments 757
Compiling Records and Record Fields 767
Allocating Records 768
Record Fields in Expressions and Assignments 772
Program 18-1: Pascal Compiler III 777
Chapter 19 Additional Topics 791
Scanning 791
Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA) 791
Table-Driven Scanners 793
Syntax Notation 796
Backus-Naur Form (BNF) 796
Extended BNF (EBNF) 797
Grammars and Languages 797
Parsing 798
Top-Down Parsers 798
Bottom-Up Parsers 798
Context-Free and Context-Sensitive Grammars 800
Code Generation 800
Instruction Selection 800
Instruction Scheduling 801
Register Allocation 803
Code Optimization 803
Debugging Compilers and Optimizing Compilers 804
Speed Optimizations 804
Runtime Memory Management 807
Heap and Stack 807
Garbage Collection 808
Compiling Object-Oriented Languages 809
Method Overloading and Name Mangling 809
Inheritance 810
Virtual Methods 810
Compiler-Compilers 811
JavaCC 811
Lex and Yacc 813
Index 817
