Re: Is it just me or...

On 16 Feb 1997 23:20:56 -0500, Robert Taylor <100440.2732@CompuServe.COM>
wrote:


> suppose is not in your favour. In the past I have tried to find
> books that discuss & contain source code for creating a compiler
> that produces 8086 assembler as the the target code but have only
> found one book - "A Retargetable C Compiler". It seems to me that


You may have a look at the following books:


"Writing Compilers & Interpreters - An Applied Approach"
Ronald Mak
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. - 1991
ISBN 0-471-50968-X


"A Compiler Writer's Toolbox -
How to Implement Interactive Compilers for PCs Using
Turbo Pascal"
Paul Cockshott
Ellis Horwood, Ltd. - 1990
ISBN 0-13-173782-1 (Library Edition)
0-13-173790-2 (Student Edition)


The former illustrates, among other tools (i.e. a syntax checker, a
pretty printer, an interpreter with interactive debugger, etc.), a
compiler for a subset of Pascal written in C. The IDE described in the
latter book is written in Turbo Pascal and features Persistent
S-algol, a dialect of Algol, as its source language. Both compilers
generate 8086 assembly code.


The book by Cockshott is interesting and, in a way, unusual among
compiler texts. If I remember well it illustrates, for example, the
implementation of a persistent heap. The only problem with the book is
that it's plagued with typos.


Paolo
--
Paolo Amoroso <amoroso@mclink.it>
[There's a very unfavorable review of Mak's book in the FAQ, saying among
other things that his code doesn't work. -John]




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