Compilers: Principles, Techniques & Tools 2nd Edition Aho, Lam, Sethi, Ullman From the Preface In the time since the 1986 edition of this book, the world of compiler design has changed significantly […] Thus, our philosophy from pervious versions of the book has not changed. […] We …. emphasize problems that are most commonly encountered in designing a language processor, regardless of the source language or target machine… Chapter 1 contains motivational material and also presents some background issue in computer architecture and programming-language principles. Chapter 2 develops a miniature compiler and introduces many of the important concepts, which are then developed in later chapters [...] Chapter 3 covers lexical analysis, regular expressions, finite-state machines, and scanner-generator tools.[…] Chapter 4 covers the major parsing methods, top-down and bottom-up.[…] Chapter 5 introduces the principal ideas in syntax-directed definitions and syntax-directed translations. Chapter 6 takes the theory of Chapter 5 and shows how to use it to generate intermediate code for a typical programming language. Chapter 7 covers run-time environments.[…] Chapter 8 is on object-code generation.[…] Chapter 9 introduces the technology of code optimization, including flow-graphs, data-flow frameworks and iterative algorithms for solving these frameworks.[…] Chapter 10 covers instruction-level optimization.[…] Chapter 11 talks about large-scale parallelism detection and exploitation.[…] Chapter 12 is on interprocedural analysis.[…]