Parag H. Dave is Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, at Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology (DDIT) at Nadiad, in Gujarat. He is also a recipient of Aryabhatt awards in Mathematics and Science.

Himanshu B. Dave is Senior Consultant in charge of Training at e-Infochips Ltd, Ahmedabad. He has served as Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science, at DDIT, Nadiad. Earlier, he has taught computer engineering at IIT-Kharagpur, where he was also a Burmah-Shell Research Fellow.

1. Introduction

2. A Simple Translator

3. Lexical Analyser

4. Syntax Analyser

5. Syntax Directed Translation

6. Type Checking

7. Run-Time Environment

8. Intermediate Code

9. Code Generation and Machine Dependent Optimization

10. Code Optimization

11. Overview of Processing of Some Languages

12. Project: Compiler for a Mini-C

Appendix A: Formal Languages and Automata

Appendix B: Assemblers and MACRO processors

Appendix C: Linkers and Loaders

Appendix D: Worked Out Problems

• Concepts illustrated with a number of examples showing their practical implementation

• The design of a compiler for mini C (a language like C) explained up to the code-generation stage, with the help of a project

• Implementation issues for several modern popular programming languages such as Java, Perl, PROLOG and FORTH included

• Compiler development tools such as YACC, Bison, LEX and Flex explained

• GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), which is widely used by embedded system developers, discussed in detail Chapter-end glossary, suggestions for further reading and web resources provided to enhance students' learning experience

Undergraduate/Diploma students of Computer science engineering/Information technology

Students of MCA, BCA, B.Sc. (Computer science)