Re: the long way to the development of a compiler

neelk@alum.mit.edu (Neelakantan Krishnaswami)
2 Jul 2001 00:31:59 -0400

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From: neelk@alum.mit.edu (Neelakantan Krishnaswami)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 2 Jul 2001 00:31:59 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 01-06-071
Keywords: code
Posted-Date: 02 Jul 2001 00:31:59 EDT

On 28 Jun 2001 23:48:29 -0400, Stefano Lanzavecchia <stf@apl.it> wrote:
>
> It was easy to write a toy compiler targeting a simple stack machine
> and implement an interpreter for the stack machine, but when I
> started thinking about real CPUs (in particular x86 and its special
> purpose registers and its asymmetric instruction set, but also the
> 6502 with its 3 registers or MIPS or Alpha) I discovered that I
> hadn't learned enough from the mentioned books.


Since you mentioned that you had used functional languages, I'll
suggest Andrew Appel's book _Modern Compiler Construction in ML_.


The book has an actual implementation (with exercises) for a simple
compiler that targets RISC architectures, and all that ought to cover
exactly what you want. The actual source code is also online somewhere.


Neel

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