Dragon Book Backend Chapters

[Peter Goodman]

Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of good places to look in the Dragon Book (compilers: principles, techniques, and tools) that covers some topics on the back-end of a compiler.

5.2.5: Semantic rules with controlled side effects

5.3.1: Construction of syntax trees

5.3.2: The structure of a type

Example 5.19, about code generation for a while loop.

5.5.2: On-the-fly code generation

6: introduction

6.2 Three-address code

6.3: Types and declarations

6.4: Translation of expressions

6.5: Type checking (don't need 6.5.3, 6.5.4, 6.5.5 unless curious)

6.6: Control flow (good to know if you are interested in more general compilers)

6.7: Backpatching (good to know if you are interested in more general compilers)

7.2: Stack allocation of space  (good to know if you are interested in more general compilers)

Best Regards,

Peter Goodman,
http://www.petergoodman.me
65 High Park Ave.,
Toronto, Ontario
M6P 2R7

[albert (shaolei) Wang]

Thanks a lot.

Shaolei

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