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  \LARGE Compilers and \\[-1mm] 

  \LARGE Formal Languages\\[-3mm] 

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  \begin{tabular}{ll}

  Email:  & christian.urban at kcl.ac.uk\\

  %Office Hours: & Thursdays 12 -- 14\\

  %Location: & N7.07 (North Wing, Bush House)\\

  Slides \& Progs: & KEATS\\

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          1 Introduction, Languages          & 6 While-Language \\

          2 Regular Expressions, Derivatives & 7 Compilation, JVM \\

          3 Automata, Regular Languages      & 8 Compiling Functional Languages \\

          4 Lexing, Tokenising               & 9 Optimisations \\

          5 Grammars, Parsing                & 10 LLVM \\ \hline

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\frametitle{The Goal of this Module\ldots}

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lexer input: a string\smallskip\\

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lexer output: a sequence of tokens\smallskip\\

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\footnotesize lexing $\Rightarrow$ recognising words (Stone of Rosetta)

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  \pcode{if}    & $\;\Rightarrow\;$ & keyword\\

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parser input: a sequence of tokens\smallskip\\

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parser output: an abstract syntax tree\smallskip\\

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code generation:\smallskip\\

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\hspace{5mm}\code{ldc 10}\\

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  Compiler explorers, e.g.: \url{https://gcc.godbolt.org}  

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\frametitle{Why Study Compilers?}

John Regehr {\small(Univ.~Utah, LLVM compiler hacker)}

\here{https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1419}

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  \bf ``\ldots{}It’s effectively a perpetual

  employment act for solid compiler hackers.''

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\item {\bf Hardware is getting weirder

  rather than getting clocked faster.}

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  like there is increasing asymmetry in resources across cores.

  Processors come with vector units, crypto accelerators etc. We have

  DSPs, GPUs, ARM big.little, and Xeon Phi. This is only scratching the

  surface.''

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\item {\bf We’re getting tired of low-level languages and

    their associated security disasters.}

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\item [] ``We want to write new code, to whatever extent possible, in

  safer, higher-level languages. Compilers are caught right in the

  middle of these opposing trends: one of their main jobs is to help

  bridge the large and growing gap between increasingly high-level

  languages and increasingly wacky platforms.''

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\frametitle{Why Bother with Compilers?}

\textbf{Boeing 777's}: First flight in 1994. They want to achieve

triple redundancy for potential hardware faults.

\here{http://www.citemaster.net/get/db3a81c6-548e-11e5-9d2e-00163e009cc7/R8.pdf}\bigskip

They compile 1 Ada program to\medskip

\begin{itemize}

  \item Intel 80486

  \item Motorola 68040 (old Macintosh's)

  \item AMD 29050 (RISC chips used often in laser printers)

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using 3 independent compilers.\bigskip\pause

\small Airbus uses C and static analysers. Recently started using CompCert.

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\frametitle{Why Bother with Regexes?}

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\small{}Ruby, Python, Java 8\medskip\\

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\small{}Us (after next lecture)\medskip\\

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\small{}matching with strings

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  \frametitle{Incidents}

  \begin{itemize}

  \item a global outage on 2 July 2019 at \textbf{Cloudflare} 

  (first one for six years)\medskip

  \begin{center}\small\color{blue}

  \begin{verbatim}  

  (?:(?:\"|'|\]|\}|\\|\d|(?:nan|infinity|true|false|

  null|undefined|symbol|math)|\`|\-|\+)+[)]*;?((?:\s

  |-|~|!|{}|\|\||\+)*.*(?:.*=.*)))  

  \end{verbatim}

  \end{center}\bigskip\bigskip\bigskip\bigskip\bigskip\bigskip\bigskip    

  \item on 20 July 2016 the \textbf{Stack Exchange} webpage went down

    because of an evil regular expression

    \here{https://stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/outage-postmortem-july-20-2016}    

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    \footnotesize

    It serves more web traffic than Twitter, Amazon, Apple,

    Instagram, Bing \& Wikipedia combined.

    \here{https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the-cloudflare-outage-on-july-2-2019/}

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\frametitle{Evil Regular Expressions}

\begin{itemize}

\item \alert{R}egular \alert{e}xpression \alert{D}enial \alert{o}f \alert{S}ervice (ReDoS)\medskip

\item Some evil regular expressions:\medskip

\begin{itemize}

\item \bl{\texttt{[a?]\{n\}\;[a]\{n\}}}

\item \bl{\texttt{(a*)*\;b}}  

\item \bl{\texttt{([a-z]+)*}} 

\item \bl{\texttt{(a + aa)*}}

\item \bl{\texttt{(a + a?)*}}

\end{itemize}

\item sometimes also called \alert{catastrophic backtracking}

\item this is a problem for \alert{N}etwork \alert{I}ntrusion

  \alert{D}etection systems, Cloudflare, StackExchange, Atom editor

\item \url{https://vimeo.com/112065252}  

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\frametitle{The Acad.~Subject is Mature}

\bigskip

\begin{itemize}

\item Turing Machines, 1936 (a tape as memory)

\item Regular Expressions, 1956\\

\item The first compiler for COBOL, 1957\\ (Grace Hopper)\medskip

\item But surprisingly research papers are still published nowadays\\

\item ``Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't''

  \here{https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/parsing_the_solved_problem_that_isnt.html}

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\begin{flushright}

\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{pics/hopper.jpg}\\

\footnotesize\textcolor{gray}{Grace Hopper}\smallskip\\

{\small\textcolor{gray}{(she made it to David Letterman's Tonight Show

 \here{https://youtu.be/3N_ywhx6_K0?t=31})}}

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\frametitle{What Do Compilers Do?}

Remember BF*** from PEP?

\begin{center}

\begin{tabular}{lcl}

\bl{\texttt{>}} & $\Rightarrow$ & move one cell right\\