Re: Help: Appel's "Modern compiler implementation ..." project

Stefan Sarstedt (stefan@bach.informatik.uni-ulm.de) wrote:
: Has anybody done an implementation of Appel's Compiler project (from
: his book "Modern compiler implementation in C/Java") for Sparc of
: Intel maschines? We're currently planning to do a project with our
: students next semester but we would like to use our Sun or Intel
: maschines (we only have the MIPS-implementation of the tiger
: compiler).


: We'd also appreciate any experiences you've probably made using
: Appel's project in a compiler construction course.


I took a course fall of 98 with which we went through the
Appel book in java. This was for a university with terms.
Whew it was a lot of work but very rewarding. Our teacher
let us get into groups of 2 for the last portion of the compiler
which helped out a lot.
We were taught how to do it with Sparc but instead
generated Java Bytecode. This took some conceptual changes from
the given information but was a lot of fun. Other groups did
Sparc and Mips, but I am unaware of how their project turned out.
We got a complete compiler working, with all the necessary
conceptual changes.
I see no reason not to use it. I personally liked the
book better than the Dragon book (the only other compiler
book I have seen). He seemed to be a little more down to earth
and handson than the formentioned book.


Marc Hernandez

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