Re: 40 year old compilers

Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se>
6 Jun 2013 17:32:22 GMT

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From: Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.compilers
Date: 6 Jun 2013 17:32:22 GMT
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 13-06-004 13-06-006
Keywords: history, C
Posted-Date: 08 Jun 2013 10:33:14 EDT

On Wed, 2013-06-05, Anton Ertl wrote:
> glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
>>So, I wonder (cross post replies) about favorite 40 year old compiler
>>books, especially if written using C-like languages
>
> I like [wulf+75]; however, that's mostly about optimizing, and I don't
> think that C compilers of that time had serious ambitions in that
> direction.
>
> Given that C compilers from 1973 came from Bell Labs, and Al Aho
> worked at Bell Labs, the books he coauthored around that time might
> fit the bill.


There's also the CSTR series of technical reports from Bell Labs itself:


    http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html
    http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/bib


A lot of them relate to compilers (but not all are available online,
not from Bell Labs anyway).


/Jorgen


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