Compiler Design
Approximate weightage in recent GATE CSE papers: ~4%
Official syllabus topics
- Lexical analysis, parsing (LL, LR)
- Syntax-directed translation
- Runtime environments
- Intermediate code generation
- Local optimisation, data flow analyses: constant propagation, liveness, common subexpression elimination
How to prepare
Parsing table questions look scary and are mostly mechanical. Practice 10 and you own them.