Re: Are there "compiler generators"?

From	gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Are there "compiler generators"?
Date	2022-05-29 23:29 -0700
Organization	Compilers Central
Message-ID	<22-05-061@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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On Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 7:16:21 PM UTC-7, Roger L Costello wrote:

> There are lexer generators. Flex is a lexer generator.

> There are parser generators. Bison is a parser generator.

> Are there compiler generators?

My old favorite, and probably still favorite, compiler book is:

"Retargetable C Compiler, A: Design and Implementation"

(It is more likely to be your favorite if you are interested in a C compiler.)

LCC uses, more or less, a code generator generator.  You supply the
instruction combinations to do operations that are needed, and it
uses dynamic programming to select the optimal code.

It is usual to generate assembly code for an assembler.

Mostly that leaves the middle end, especially for optimization,
that doesn't have its own generator.

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Are there "compiler generators"? Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> - 2022-05-28 22:27 +0000
  Re: Are there "compiler generators"? "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2022-05-29 13:34 +1000
  Re: Are there "compiler generators"? Jan Ziak <0xe2.0x9a.0x9b@gmail.com> - 2022-05-28 23:52 -0700
  Re: Are there "compiler generators"? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2022-05-29 06:45 +0000
  Re: Are there "compiler generators"? Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-05-29 09:14 +0000
    Re: Are there "compiler generators"? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2022-05-30 14:53 +0200
      Re: Are there "compiler generators"? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2022-05-31 12:57 +0200
        Re: Are there "compiler generators"? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-05-31 16:55 -0700
          RE: Are there compiler generators? Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2022-06-01 14:07 +0300
  Re: Are there "compiler generators"? Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> - 2022-05-29 12:00 +0100
    Re: Are there "compiler generators"? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2022-05-30 07:35 +0000
  Re: Are there "compiler generators"? Fernando <pronesto@gmail.com> - 2022-05-29 05:00 -0700
  Re: Are there "compiler generators"? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-05-29 23:29 -0700
    Re: Are there "compiler generators"? mac <acolvin@efunct.com> - 2022-06-09 14:12 +0000
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