CS 4410/6410 Compilers						-*- outline -*-
Thursday 6-9PM WVH 108
13 lectures

Note: The lecture schedule is apt to change over time as the course
progresses, so consult the on-line version at 
    http://www.ccs.neu.edu/course/csu4410/sched.txt
for up-to-date information.

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* Important Spring semester dates
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  1/9     Mon	 First day of classes
  3/3-11  Sat-Sun Spring break
  3/1	  Thu	 Midterm
  4/18    Wed	 Last day of Spring Classes
  4/20-28 Fri	 First day of final exams
  4/23	  Mon	 Final exam: 1:00-3:00 Ryder Hall room 145
  4/27    Fri	 Last day of final exams
  4/30    Mon	 Final grades due (unconfirmed -- but likely)

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* Project schedule
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  Project			Starts		Due (6 pm)
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  1 Lexer			1/12		2/2
  2 Parser			2/2		2/16
  3 Static analyser		2/16		3/1
  4 Frame analyser		3/1		3/22
  5 IR-gen			3/8		3/22
  6 Insn selector		3/22		3/29
  7 Liveness DFA		3/29		4/5
  8 Reg alloc			4/5		4/19
  9 Final assembly		4/19		4/26

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* Daily schedule
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L#  Date	Topic									Project	milestone
--  ----	---------------------------------------------------------------		-------------------------------
 1  1/12	Intro/overview/SML
 2  1/19	Lexers
 3  1/26	LL parsers
 4  2/2		LR parsers								[Lexer in; parser out]		 
 5  2/9		Symbol tables / Semantic analysis						
 6  2/16	Stack layout & procedure linkage					[Parser in; static-analysis out] 
 7  2/23	Translating to IR 1: exps, bools for val&control, control		
 8  3/1		Translating to IR 2: functions, compound data (records, arrays)		[SA in; frame analysis out][MIDTERM!]
 -  3/8		Spring break -- no lecture							
 9  3/15	Generating basic blocks / insn selection				[IR-gen out]		 
10  3/22	Data-flow analysis & register allocation				[FA & IR gen in; Insn sel out]	 
11  3/29	Register allocation & data-flow analysis				[Insn sel in; DFA out]
12  4/5		Data-flow analysis & loop optimisations					[DFA in; reg alloc out]
13  4/12	GC									
    4/19										[reg alloc in; final assem out]
    4/23	final exam
    4/26										[final assem in]