COMP 512: Advanced Compiler Construction Professor Keith D. Cooper Department of Computer Science Rice University Houston, Texas, USA Spring 2009: Room 105, Keck Hall, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10am

Lab Assignments

1. Lab 0: Download and set up LLVM on your computer
   Due January 26, 2008
   
   In this lab, you will obtain a copy of the LLVM compiler system, compile it, and install it on your own machine. You may use OwlNet for the labs in this course, or you may work on your own computer. If neither of those seem attractive, contact me and we will make other arrangements.
   • The necessary benchmark programs
   
   
2. Lab 1: Live Variables Analysis
   Due February 25, 2008
   
   In this lab, you will compute liveness information for programs that have been translated into the LLVM intermediate representation. From that data, you will produce a statistical summary of demand for registers. You will also experiment with the impact of optimization on demand for registers.
   • The necessary benchmark programs