This document provides an overview of the topics that will be covered in a compiler design course, including:
- The major parts of a compiler are the analysis and synthesis phases. Analysis includes lexical analysis, syntax analysis, and semantic analysis to create an intermediate representation. Synthesis generates target code from the intermediate representation.
- Parsing techniques include top-down parsing like LL parsing and bottom-up parsing like LR parsing to create a parse tree from a context-free grammar.
- Semantic analysis performs type checking and collects symbol table information. Intermediate code generation outputs machine-independent code that is optimized and input to code generation.