New textbook: Practical Compiler Construction

I am happy to announce my latest textbook,


PRACTICAL COMPILER CONSTRUCTION
A No-nonsense Tour through a C Compiler


which is now available at Lulu.com:


http://www.lulu.com/content/12610903 (Paperback book)
http://www.lulu.com/content/12685672 (PDF download)


See also:


http://www.t3x.org/reload/ (Contents, source code, etc)


The book illuminates the practical side of compiler construction and
takes the reader on a tour through the full source code of a compiler
for a C subset.


It is a book for seasoned programmers with little or no background in
compiler-writing.


Theory will be covered when necessary, but the focus is always on
actual code. The compiler discussed in the book is a clean and simple
implementation that does not "bend the rules" like many other small C
compilers. Its sources pass gcc -Wall -pedantic with little or no
warnings (depending on the gcc version).


The compiler and runtime environment is designed to run on FreeBSD on
a 386 processor, but it should be easy to port it to other popular
Unix-like systems, e.g. Linux.


The complete code from the book is in the public domain and can be
downloaded at


http://www.t3x.org/subc/


Enjoy!


--
Nils M Holm < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g > www.t3x.org

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