CSE 413 -- Compilers

Course Notes

• Introduction to compilers
• Lexical analysis (scanner) 
• Context-free grammars and parsing 
• x86 and MASM Overview 
• Code generation for D

Intel Manuals

These are Intel's reference manuals for the X86 architecture (in pdf format).   This contains far more detail than we need, but it's all here if you need a precise description of something.

• Intel Architecture Overview
• Intel Architecture Instruction Set Reference

MASM Links

MASM is no longer available as a separate retail product from Microsoft, but there are several ways to get it.  (Needed for final part of the compiler project only)

• MASM is included in Visual Studio .NET.
• It is part of the Visual Studio 6.0 C++ Processor Pack, which adds support for the streaming media instructions in recent Intel and AMD processors.  This is probably the easiest way to install MASM on VS 6.0. 
• Microsoft's support web includes a patch to update MASM to version 6.14.  This page also describes how to get a copy of MASM 6.11 (the last retail version) as a "fulfillment option" if you own a registered copy of Visual C++.
• If you have a subscription to MSDN (the Microsoft Developer's Network) that includes compiler tools, you can find MASM on one of the CD's.
• MASM is also included in the Windows 98 device driver development kit.

The only thing we need from either the MASM 6.11 package or the Win98 device driver kit is the ml.exe file (that's letter l, not digit 1), which is the actual assembler.  This program can produce 32-bit binaries that can be combined with C and other programs using the Visual Studio 32-bit linker. 

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