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CMSI 488 
Preparation for Quiz 2
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The quiz is open book, notes, and "static" web.  You cannot
solicit answers nor extract information from a person or bot.
You can not look at nor take pictures of other people's
exams.

First, scan this list of the topics covered so far and make
sure everything at least rings a bell.

    Language Theory
    The Language Hana
    Intermediate Representations
    IA 
    NASM
    
Know how to:

    * Write an AST given C source code.

    * Determine whether certain Hana errors
      are lexical, syntactic, static semantic,
      or dynamic semantic.

    * Write semantic analysis methods (you'll have to
      do this on the exam for a new language feature).

    * Write good intermediate code for given fragments
      of Hana.  The current compiler distribution
      doesn't necessarily make great intermediate
      code, so you may have to generate this by
      hand.

    * Write a few NASM functions.

To prepare:

    * There are practice problems similar to the problems you
      will see on the quiz; you may want to work those out.

    * Also, re-read the Hana language specification, the notes
      on Squid, and the source code for all the analyze()
      methods in the compiler.

    * Make sure you have available at quiz time a C language
      reference and the NASM documentation.  Practice writing
      some ASTs and NASM fragments with your documentation
      nearby.  You'll have to do this during the quiz in a
      pressure situation, so make sure you are already familiar
      with the process.