chapter 1 Data Flow Analysis Uday P. Khedker -- chapter 2 Automatic Generation of Code Optimizers from Formal Specifications Vineeth Kumar Paleri -- chapter 3 Scalar Compiler Optimizations on the Static Single Assignment Form and the Flow Graph Y.N. Srikant -- chapter 4 Profile-Guided Compiler Optimizations Rajiv Gupta, Eduard Mehofer and Youtao Zhang -- chapter 5 Shape Analysis and Applications Reinhard Wilhelm, Thomas Reps and Mooly Sagiv -- chapter 6 Optimizations for Object-Oriented Languages Andreas Krall and Nigel Horspool -- chapter 7 Data Flow Testing Rajiv Gupta and Neelam Gupta -- chapter 8 Program Slicing G.B. Mund, D. Goswami and Rajib Mall -- chapter 9 Debuggers for Programming Languages Sanjeev Kumar Aggarwal and M. Sarath Kumar -- chapter 10 Dependence Analysis and Parallelizing Transformations Sanjay Rajopadhye -- chapter 11 Compilation for Distributed Memory Architectures Alok Choudhary and Mahmut Kandemir -- chapter 12 Automatic Data Distribution J. Ramanujam -- chapter 13 Register Allocation K. Gopinath -- chapter 14 Architecture Description Languages for Retargetable Compilation Wei Qin and Sharad Malik -- chapter 15 Instruction Selection Using Tree Parsing Priti Shankar -- chapter 16 Retargetable Very Long Instruction Word Compiler Framework for Digital Signal Processors Subramanian Rajagopalan and Sharad Malik -- chapter 17 Instruction Scheduling R. Govindarajan -- chapter 18 Software Pipelining Vicki H. Allan and Stephen J. Allan -- chapter 19 Dynamic Compilation Evelyn Duesterwald -- chapter 20 Compiling Safe Mobile Code R. Venugopal and Ravindra B. Keskar -- chapter 21 Type Systems in Programming Languages Ramesh Subrahmanyam -- chapter 22 Introduction to Operational Semantics Sanjiva Prasad and S. Arun-Kumar.