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Re: Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler for a Subset of a C-like Language

From Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@antartida.xyz>
Newsgroups comp.compilers
Subject Re: Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler for a Subset of a C-like Language
Date 2025-01-20 08:38 -0300
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antispam@fricas.org writes:

> John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> 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.

Would you recommend an equivalent paper or book that addresses these
short-comings but maintains the educational spirit of the paper?  (It's
okay if the architecture is not a popular one.)
[Good question.  There's the old Let's Build a Compiler which you can find
on my web site and some books.  Alan Holub wrote a well known book but the
code in the book is incredibly buggy so I wouldn't recommend it. -John]

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Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler for a Subset of a C-like Language John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2025-01-09 09:18 -0500
  Re: Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler for a Subset of a C-like Language OrangeFish <OrangeFish@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-11 09:15 -0500
    Re: Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler for a Subset of a C-like Language OrangeFish <OrangeFish@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-12 16:15 -0500
  Re: Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler for a Subset of a C-like Language antispam@fricas.org - 2025-01-16 13:46 +0000
    Re: Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler for a Subset of a C-like Language Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@antartida.xyz> - 2025-01-20 08:38 -0300
      Re: Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler for a Subset of a C-like Language OrangeFish <OrangeFish@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-20 11:17 -0500
        Re: lecture notes on compilers, was Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler Fernando Magno Quintao Pereira <pronesto@gmail.com> - 2025-01-21 13:33 -0300
        Re: Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler for a Subset of a C-like Language George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2025-01-21 19:44 -0500
          Re: Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler for a Subset of a C-like Language OrangeFish <OrangeFish@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-23 20:49 -0500
            Re: Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler for a Subset of a C-like Language George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2025-01-25 19:07 -0500
        Re: Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler for a Subset of a C-like Language Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 13:56 -0800
      Re: Books on writing a compiler, was Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler antispam@fricas.org - 2025-01-21 12:01 +0000
        Re: Books on writing a compiler, was Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler antispam@fricas.org - 2025-01-21 18:45 +0000
      Re: Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler for a Subset of a C-like Language George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2025-01-21 19:54 -0500
        Re: Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler for a Subset of a C-like Language Dmitri Volkov <dmitri.s.volkov@gmail.com> - 2025-01-23 15:54 -0500

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