Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools

Preface: This book is a descendant of Principles of Compiler Design by Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman. Like its ancestor, it is intended as a text for a first course in compiler design. The emphasis is on solving problems universally encountered in designing a language translator, regardless of the source or target machine. Although few people are likely to build or even maintain a compiler for a major programming language, the reader can profitably apply the ideas and techniques discussed in this book to general software design. The techniques of code optimization have been used in program verifiers and in programs that produce "structured" programs from unstructured ones.