GATE CSE Compiler Design syllabus

Lexing, parsing, translation, runtime environments and optimisation.

About Compiler Design in GATE CSE

The GATE CSE 2027 syllabus lists 5 topics under Compiler Design.

It is one of the 9 subjects that together carry 72 of the 100 marks (Computer Science subjects). General Aptitude adds 15 marks and is common to every paper. The exam has 65 questions (MCQ, MSQ and NAT) in 3 hours.

See the full GATE CSE syllabus for every subject and the marks distribution.

Compiler Design topics

Lexical analysis, parsing and syntax-directed translation
Runtime environments
Intermediate code generation
Local optimisation
Data flow analyses: constant propagation, liveness analysis and common subexpression elimination

Compiler Design PYQs & weightage

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GATE CSE previous year questions (PYQs) on Compiler Design, with answers, solutions and topic-wise weightage, will appear here as they are published.