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THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

INFORMATICS

BSc AND MComp SECOND YEAR EXAMINATION 2021

January 2021 (A1)

Compilers and Computer Architecture

Candidates should answer TWO questions out of THREE. If all three

questions are attempted only the first two answers will be marked.

Each question is worth 50 marks.

Write your answers on A4 paper, scan and save as a single PDF file and

upload to Canvas

PDF file name: candidate number module title

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Misconduct regulations).

G5035 Compilers and Computer Architecure

1. This question is about lexing, parsing, and CFGs (= context free grammars).

(a) For each of the following statements about ASTs (= abstract syntax

trees), state whether they are true or false. Correct answers are

awarded 2 marks; wrong answers are penalised by 1 mark (to a minimum

of 0 marks for this question). Omitted answers do not contribute

positively or negatively to your grade. [14 marks]

i. The lexer takes as input a list of tokens, representing a program.

ii. The lexer produces an AST from the list of tokens.

iii. The token list is produced in the semantic analysis stage.

iv. The purpose of the lexing phase is to make it easier to adapt a

compiler to new machine architectures (such as moving from Intel

to ARM processors).

v. The purpose of constructing an AST is to represent the structure of

the computer program, to simplify code generation.

vi. The purpose of constructing an AST is to allow the compiler to

generate faster executable machine code.

vii. Dynamically typed languages like Python and Javascript don’t need

to do lexing and parsing.

(b) In this question, we consider CFGs in which we take S to be the initial

variable. For each of the following statements, state whether they are

true or false. Correct answers are awarded 4 marks; wrong answers

are penalised by 1 mark (to a minimum of 0 marks for this question).

Omitted answers do not contribute positively or negatively to your grade.

True or false: the language of this CFG is infinite (meaning: contains

infinitely many strings).

True or false: the language of this CFG is precisely the set of

non-empty strings over {(,)} with balanced brackets, including

e.g. (),(()),(()(())), ...

iii.

True or false: the language of this CFG is precisely the set of

(possibly empty) strings over {(,)} with balanced brackets, including

e.g. (),(()),(()(())), ....

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iv. The CFG over the alphabet {a, !} with reductions

S → HSHS

True or false: the CFG is left-recursive.

(c) For this question, you are to provide a formal specification of the

structure of the reduction relations of a CFG, given that a CFG can itself

be described using a sequence of symbols.

Consider a context-free grammar G = (A, V, S, X), with alphabet A =

{a, b, c}, variables V = {P, Q, R, S, T}, and start variable S. Observe that

one may specify the reduction relation X with a string of the following

format:

A single reduction rule has the format “hvari ::= hstringi”, where

– hvari ∈ V , and

– hstringi is either a single symbol ‘epsilon’, or a non-empty string

over the set A ∪ V .

The set of all reduction rules consists either of just a single reduction

rule, or a semicolon-separated list “hrule1i ; hrule2i ; · · · ” in which

each hruleji is a single reduction rule.

Write a formal grammar (involving alphabet symbols ‘ ::= ’, ‘epsilon’, ‘;’ ,

‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘P’, ‘Q’, etc.) which accepts precisely the strings with the

above format, for a CFG G = (A, V, S, X) as set out above. (Hint: use

notation which distinguishes the rules of the CFG G, from the rules of

the formal grammar which you use to describe G.) [20 marks]

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G5035 Compilers and Computer Architecure

2. This question is about code generation. The first two parts make reference

to the following program fragment in a Java-like language:

class MyInt {

private int n;

public MyInt (int j) { n=j; }

public int f (int x) { n=n+1; return n*x; }

public MyInt g (int x) {

int j = x+n;

MyInt r = new MyInt(j);

return r;

}

}

(a) Consider an invocation of the form a.g(z) for variables a (of type MyInt)

and z (of type int). Describe the locations in memory of the variables

x, j, n, and r (making reference to the stack, activation frame, symbol

table, or heap as appropriate), and explain the reason for your answer.

i. Briefly describe the location of the variable x, and the reason for this.

[4 marks]

ii. Describe the location of the variable j. Does it have any simple

relationship to the location of x? Briefly explain your answer.

[8 marks]

iii. Describe the location of the variable n. Does it have any simple

relationship to the location of x or j? Briefly explain your answer.

[8 marks]

iv. Describe the location of the object r. Does it have any simple

relationship to the location of x, j, or n? Briefly explain your answer.

[8 marks]

(b) Explain how the compilation of methods and method invocation in

object-oriented languages, can be reduced to the compilation of

procedures and procedure calls. Your answer should suppose an

approach involving method tables.

i. Write pseudocode representing how MyInt::f would be realised as

a procedure, and how an invocation a.f(x) would be realised as a

procedure invocation for an object a of class MyInt. [6 marks]

ii. Explain briefly how method bodies are stored in memory, and how

these memory locations may be found at run-time in a method

invocation. [10 marks]

iii. Explain briefly what advantage there is to perform such a

conversion, e.g., in a compiler accepting multiple source languages.

[6 marks]

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3. This question is about computer architecture.

(a) In most common architectures, a memory access to an odd-valued

address may either fail, or be slower than a memory access to an

address which is a multiple of 4 or 8. Briefly explain why. [10 marks]

(b) Describe the two main issues which apply to the use and availability of

the following for kinds of memory. Describe how these issues apply to

each sort of memory (a very brief description for each). [10 marks]

i. Registers;

ii. Flash memory;

iii. Dynamic RAM (main memory);

iv. Static RAM (cache);

(c) In this question, you will write (short) RISC-V assembly programs for two

different tasks. Your programs may only use the registers x0, a0, t1, t2,

sp, and fp, and the following RISC-V assembly commands:

lw register1 offset (register2 ) load a word of data at offset from

an address stored in register2 , into

register1 .

sw register1 offset (register2 ) store the value of register1 into

memory at offset from an address

stored in register2 .

add register1 register2 register3 add the values stored in register3

and register2 , and store the result in

register1 .

addi register1 register2 constant add the signed 16-bit value constant

to the value stored in register2 and

and store the result in register1 .

b address jump to the instruction at address .

beq register1 register2 address if the contents of register1 and

register2 are equal, jump to the

instruction at address .

bne register1 register2 address if the contents of register1 and

register2 are different, jump to the

instruction at address .

Each instruction is to be written on a separate line. Use the convention

that the stack grows “downwards” (i.e., that the front of the stack is at a

lower address than the rest of the stack) and that sp points at an unused

word in memory below the front of the stack.

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G5035 Compilers and Computer Architecure

i. Write a program that pushes the value 0 onto the front of the stack.

[10 marks]

ii. Write a RISC-V assembly program to add a sequence of numbers

which are stored on the stack. Assume the following:

The last item on the stack to be added, is at the address which

is pointed to by fp; and that the initial value stored by fp is an

address in memory which is higher than that stored in sp.

In particular: there is at least one item on the stack to be added.

The resulting sum is to be stored at the front of the stack. The first

instruction should have a symbolic address “start”, and the last

instruction should jump to a symbolic address “done”. [20 marks]

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