Work Note 6, DM546, Spring 2015

Lecture February 20

Background material: Appel Chapters 5, 7, 8, 9. In this course, we have a slightly different focus from that in the textbook. As a consequence, we will take a simpler and more direct approach to code generation. Thus, it is recommended that you merely skim over the material in the book before the lecture and read after the lecture to the extent that you need the material. You can find support for my approach at the lecture in the Supplementary Notes for DM546.

Exercises March 6

As announced on the previous work note, this exercise session is a continuation of the one from last exercise session. Work on problems from that work note, get things actually running, implement variations to get hands-on experience with concepts you find unclear. Among other things, work on getting the example developed at the previous exercises on nested scope and static link running. You can also develop your own examples. For instance, a variation of the factorial example where you place the factorial function in an inner scope of another function, and have factorial modify a variable in its parent scope before returning a value.

Announcements

Relative to the course schedule announced by the faculty, we make the following adjustment: The exercises on Friday in week 8 will be changed to a lecture, and the lecture on Tuesday in week 10 will be changed to exercises. These work notes will reflect the changes, so if you just follow them, you will not be surprised.

For the exercises in week 10, you should show up in IMADA's terminal room.

Last modified: Mon Feb 16 10:41:55 CET 2015
Kim Skak Larsen (kslarsen@imada.sdu.dk)