Re: Books on compiler tools ?

John L wrote:


> Are there any books currently in print that describe compiler building
> tools other than my venerable "lex & yacc". I realize that books like the
> dragon book mention them as part of a description of RE lexers or LALR
> parsers, but I'm more interested in books like Terrence Parr's 1996 book
> on PCCTS or Holub's book where he reimplemented lex and yacc.


So you want books on tools, not on compiler construction
in general. My old favorite is the LCC book, where the
code generator takes a machine description and uses that
in code generation. I don't remember that it uses special
tools for the parser or lexer.


Otherwise, for books about compilers...


It seems that there is a new Aho, ... book as of Aug. 2006:


http://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-Tools-2nd/dp/0321486811/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220664416&sr=1-1


one by Louden from 1996, which also still seems to be in print, but
might use yacc.


http://www.amazon.com/Compiler-Construction-Principles-Kenneth-Louden/dp/0534939724/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220664416&sr=1-3


Engineering a Compiler, Cooper & Torczon,


http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Compiler-Keith-Cooper/dp/155860698X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220664416&sr=1-4


Advanced Compiler Design by Muchnick


http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Compiler-Design-Implementation-Muchnick/dp/1558603204/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220664416&sr=1-6


Crafting a Compiler with C, Fischer & LeBlanc


http://www.amazon.com/Crafting-Compiler-C-Charles-Fischer/dp/0805321667/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220664416&sr=1-7


Modern Compiler Implementation in Java, Appel & Palsberg


http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Compiler-Implementation-Andrew-Appel/dp/052182060X/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220664416&sr=1-9


Those are from putting compiler into amazon.com with the category
set to books. It looks like they are in print.


also, The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine
Code Generation, Second Edition by Srikant & Shankar,


http://www.amazon.com/Compiler-Design-Handbook-Optimizations-Generation/dp/142004382X/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220665085&sr=1-15


I don't know more about them than from the Amazon web site, but
some sound like they might be good. (though not cheap.)


-- glen
[Most of those books are long out of print; Amazon keeps them in the catalog
in case someone wants to sell a used copy. But thanks nonetheless. -John]

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