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Academic Integrity at McGill University

In terms of this course, part of your responsibility is to ensure that you put the name of the author on all code that is submitted. By putting your name on the code you are indicating that it is completely your own work. If you use some third-party code you must have permission to use it and you must clearly indicate the source of the code.

Announcements:

• Nov 10, Chris had added more scripts to the joos benchmarks to make it easy to run the peephole patterns on the A-, A+ and your Joos compilers. Please see http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~hendren/520/bench2004/fall2004/joos/README for instructions on how to use it.

  You will find the new tar-ball, with the new peephole scripts at: http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~hendren/520/bench2004/fall2004-0.5.tar.gz. These have all been upacked in the directory:

  http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~hendren/520/bench2004/fall2004/

• Nov 5, Chris has made a few improvements to benchmarks available as in point below. You probably want to refresh and take a new copy of the .tar.gz file.
• Nov 3, Joos and Wig benchmarks are available at: http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~hendren/520/bench2004/ . You may take the entire suite by grabbing the file fall2004.tar.gz , or you may browse the directories. Chris Pickett has also prepared some scripts which you may find useful -- check out the subdirectory fall2004/joos . Any questions you have about the benchmarks or how to run them should be directed to Chris.
• Use bsdwig4, bsdwig18, bsdperfectwig on lab4 BSD machines (and then compile the resulting file on freebsd.cs.mcgill.ca). Or, use wig4, wig18, perfectwig on a SUN server (willy,mimi) and then compile resulting file on freebsd.cs.mcgill.ca. wig10 should work anywhere that Java runs ..., but generated code must be compiled on freebsd.cs.mcgill.ca.
• Oct 5, updated information about WIG compilers sent in e-mail. A copy of the message is found here .
• Oct 2, IMPORTANT INFO about WIG compilers . Please read these important updates
• Oct 2, svn documents updated. (html) --- (pdf)
• Sept 30, NO CLASS ON WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 6
• Sept 30 , TENTATIVE Final Exam Timetable has COMP 520 final exam scheduled for Tuesday Dec 07, 14:00. The date and time may still change, keep a watch on http://www.mcgill.ca/student-records/exam
• Sept 25, SOCS has an svn server now, and you might prefer to use svn instead of cvs (I prefer svn myself). Kacper has kindly written a small document with all of the basics for using svn, it can be found here .
• Sept 25, JOOS grammar, if you are getting parse errors for your JOOS programs, remember that your can find the exact grammar of JOOS in bison form or sablecc form.
• Sept 21, instructions for using Eclipse. Eclipse is an open source development environment, with some very nice features for developing Java projects. If you are interested in using Eclipse, you can get more information and download it from http://www.eclipse.org . Patrick has kindly provided the basic instructions on how to set up a project and use ant and cvs with that project. His directions are found here .
• Sept 20, for all of you using SableCC, I suggest that you join the SableCC-user mailing list. You may post precise questions there, and you may review the prior postings. Since there is a current lack of documentation on SableCC3, posting relevant questions would be of benefit to other users and the SableCC3 developers. See http://sablecc.org/lists/control/listinfo/sablecc-user/ for information on how to subscribe to the list and how to review the archives.
• Sept 15, JJOOS for SableCC version 3 is all working now. Thanks to Etienne Gagnon for his help. Give SableCC 3 a try and see how you like it. Further instructions here .
• Sept 15, I have gone through all of the course web site and updated links and software. I think everything should be ok now. Please let me know of any problems, or any links which might be interesting to add. LJH
• Sept 13, Milestone 0 is due this Friday.
• Sept 13, Make sure you put -lfl as the last argument for your compilation and linking of a flex scanner. For example, a simple scanner would be compiled by

  flex exp.l
  gcc lex.yy.c -o mylexer -lfl
  

  To see a sample makefile and small scanner and parser, refer to this directory . You can grab all required files in a tar bundle as exp.tar. If you use the tar file, be sure to extract it inside a new directory.
• First class is Wednesday, Sept 1, ENGTR 2100, 11:35-12:25. Be sure to come on time and be ready to take some notes.