MATLAB is a popular language for scientific and numerical programming. Despite its popularity, there are few active rojects providing open tools for MATLAB related compiler research. This thesis provides the McLAB Static Analysis Framework, McSAF, the goal of which is to simplify the development of new compiler tools for MATLAB. The McLAB project was started in order to develop such tools in the hopes of attracting further research. The goal of the project is to provide an extensible compiler toolkit for MATLAB and scientific programming. It is intended to explore the compilation challenges unique to MATLAB and to explore new language features that could help scientific programmers be more productive. One piece of functionality that is part...