

Attributed grammars, Syntax directed translation, Conversion of popular programming languages language constructs into intermediate code forms, Type checker.Symbol Tables : Symbol table format, Organization for block structures languages, Hashing, Tree structures representation of scope information.

Overview of Compilation : Phases of compilation - Lexical analysis, Regular grammar and regular expression for common programming language features, Pass and phases of translation, Interpretation, Bootstrapping, Data structures in compilation - LEX lexical analyzer generator.Top Down Parsing : Context free grammars, Top down parsing, Backtracking, LL (1), Recursive descent parsing, Predictive parsing, Preprocessing steps required for predictive parsing.Bottom up Parsing : Shift reduce parsing, LR and LALR parsing, Error recovery in parsing, Handling ambiguous grammar, YACC - automatic parser generator.Semantic Analysis : Intermediate forms of source programs - abstract syntax tree, Polish notation and three address codes. Technical Publications, Compilers (Computer programs) - 461 pages
