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Answer: No. The source code is not available any more. The project was done during 2002-04 and we are not continuing the project any more. Therefore, we are not in a position to supply the source code. However, the paper which describes the work is available. The reference is : Kapil Vaswani and Y.N. Srikant, Dynamic Recompilation and Pro le-guided Optimizations for a .NET JIT Compiler, IEE Proc. Software, 150(5), October 2003, pp 296-302, (Special issue on Rotor). I will not be able to supply the paper since it is copyrighted by IEE. Srikant
Answer: printf and scanf in C are macros and are not processed much by the compiler. In fact, the type checking on parameters is also not done. They are simply passed to the macro and a call to that macro is generated by the compiler.
Answer: No DVD or HD videos are available.
Answer: This question is not a part of the advanced topics in compiler design. However, in brief, there is no easy way to compute first and follow. It does require an elaborate application of the standard algorithms. Please solve a few problems and become more familiar with the algorithms. Simple and easy ways to compute first and follow usually fail on complicated grammars.
Answer: Question irrelevant to "compiler design" and therefore not answered.
Answer: Question needs to be more specific.
Answer: I am sorry. I do not solve problems in this forum. This is meant for clarifications only.
Answer: These lectures are of an advanced nature and they assume the knowledge of the front end, which deals with intermediate code generation. Therefore, none of the topics related to the front end are covered in these lectures.
Answer: Please go through the lectures on "run-time organization".
Answer: I have suggested many possible projects as a part of the course. Please try to pursue them. There are also URLs that I have suggested as a part of the project suggestion to download software that may be helpful for the project.
Answer: During lexical analysis (and parsing), the source program is read from secondary memory and then converted an intermediate representation, which is stored usually in main memory (unless it is extremely large). From now onwards, all transformations are carried out on the intermediate form stored in main memory. The assembly/machine code is finally written out to a file.
Answer: A compiler is required to convert a program in a high level language to machine code. The program can be any program - media player or some thing else - in a high level language. A compiler is for a particular high level language, not for a particular program.
Answer: This is not a compiler related question. Please refer to a book on systems programming. However, let me add that a compiler can produce any of these forms and compilers have command line switches for such variations.
