Re: Information about GCC detailed design?

naveens@titanium.noida.hclt.com wrote:
> I have started to study a COMPILER IMPLEMENTAION in oder to understand
> this wonderful thing called COMPILER.Since GNU's GCC is a open source
> compiler implementation and in comprehensive use ,I thought it would be
> the best choice.


I'm not sure you want to use GCC/EGCS as a good example of how to
learn about compiler implementation. The emphasis of EGCS has been
practical portability, not compiler education, and it's a VERY big
compiler.


If you want a simpler/smaller open-source compiler that may be more
conducive to compiler education, you might want to look at lcc:
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/lcc/. It's available for Unix as
well as Win 95/98. There's even a book on the compiler, and a
newsgroup: comp.compilers.lcc.


If you insist on GCC/EGCS, look to http://gcc.gnu.org or for docs,
especially http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/.


You might also want to search for alternative candidate compilers at:


http://www.idiom.com/free-compilers/index.html


--
Randy Crawford
crwfrd@umich.edu
http://www.engin.umich.edu/labs/cpc

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