Reading Materials

Books

Modern Compiler Implementaion in ML (The tiger Book)
Note that the author has a number of versions of the book (for ML, Java, and C) and multiple editions. ANY VERSION of the book will be okay. And see Modern Compiler Implementation in Java on china-pub
Engineering a compiler. (The ark book)
Compiler: principals, techniques, and tools (2nd). (The dragon book)
Modern compiler implementation. (The whale book)

SML/NJ

Home page of Standard ML of New Jersey
Documentation of SML Basis Libraray
Some tutorials of SML
A good FAQ
Programming in Standard ML by Robert Harper
Another Book ML for the Working Programmer
Documentation for ML-Lex
Documentation for ML-Yacc
Notes on SML/NJ
CheatSheet

MLton

Home page of MLton ML basis system.

IA32 and Assembler

gas: the GNU assembler
Starting from version 2.10, gas supports intel syntax.
Intel 80386 reference programmers' manual. local copy
This manual is relatively old (dates back to 1985), but it covers every detail used in this course. Also this manual is sufficient to understand Linux, Windows kernel and GCC output.

GDB

gdb: the GNU debugger

LD

ld: the GNU linker