Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: antispam@fricas.org Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler for a Subset of a C-like Language Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:46:20 -0000 Organization: Compilers Central Sender: news%iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <25-01-010@comp.compilers> References: <25-01-004@comp.compilers> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="97764"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: lex, yacc Posted-Date: 16 Jan 2025 13:43:59 EST X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:3623 John R Levine wrote: > The authors developed a compiler for a toy language targeting Raspberry Pi > using lex and yacc. Nothing very new but it shows how you build a > compiler incremntally expanding the source language. > > https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04503 I am affraid that the best use of this paper is to forget it. On one hand presentation is very naive and their "final" compiler apparently does not handle things handled in ususal toy compilers. On the other hand their presentation has a lot of gaps and mistakes, so that a newbie is unlikely to be able to follow them. -- Waldek Hebisch