A Compiler Writing Journey: Building a Self-Compiling C Subset Compiler
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ibobev
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Summary
A GitHub repository documenting a personal journey to write a self-compiling compiler for a subset of the C language. The project provides practical, step-by-step guidance on compiler development, covering topics from lexical scanning and parsing to operator precedence and actual compilation, with explanations of implementation decisions and references to compiler theory.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledI'm documenting my journey to write a self-compiling compiler for a subset of the C language.
I'm also writing out the details so that, if you want to follow along, there will be an explanation of what I did, why, and with some references back to the theory of compilers.
But not too much theory, I want this to be a practical journey.
Here are the steps I've taken so far: Part 0: Introduction to the Journey, Part 1: Introduction to Lexical Scanning, Part 2: Introduction to Parsing, Part 3: Operator Precedence, Part 4: An Actual Compiler
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