Re: Object Oriented Compiler Construction

drh@world.std.com (Richard Hipp) writes:


> I have a need to write a compiler in an OOP style using C++. I have some
> ideas of how to proceed, but am interested in first considering the ideas
> and experiences of others who have undertaken similar efforts.


I am teaching a graduate programming languages course at Purdue, and one
of my project assignments (the one on OOP) is a Guarded Command Language
interpreter in Oberon-2. The design is very much along the lines you
sketched. I'll be happy to provide a copy of the project description to
interested individuals.


The suite of Compiler Generation Tools known as GMD Tools (or Cocktail, as
of late) supports inheritance on the grammar level. The paper
"Object-Oriented Attribute Grammars" by Josef Grosch, one of the authors
of Cocktail, can be obtained via


ftp://cs.purdue.edu/pub/knapp/OOAttributeGrammars.ps.Z


Edgar


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