Re: Writing a compiler

"Tony" <tony@my.net>
Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:41:34 -0500

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From: "Tony" <tony@my.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:41:34 -0500
Organization: at&t http://my.att.net/
References: 08-10-037 08-10-046 08-10-047
Keywords: code, C++, comment
Posted-Date: 01 Nov 2008 08:29:39 EDT

"Nick" <Ibeam2000@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> Just use XSLT to generate the assembler code.
>
> If I can make a suggestion, use C or C++ as target language. Here
> you don't have to reinvent subroutine calling and the like, and you
> maintain compatibility with other things on the OS. Not to mention
> ease of moving around different OSes. And troubleshooting. Much
> easier.


I want to do exactly that to experiment with language features, but I
don't really know where to begin. Probably studying how CFront
generated C code? From what I've read, it seems that CFront couldn't
implement the whole language. How could it when introducing something
like '::' as the scoping operator when C doesn't have such a beast?


Tony
[cfront was a prototype, and it's a miracle it worked as well as it did.
If you want to see generated code, either get the Comeau compiler, or look
at the assembler output from something like GCC. -John]

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