Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Salvador Mirzo Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Paper: Developing a Modular Compiler for a Subset of a C-like Language Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:38:42 -0300 Organization: Compilers Central Sender: news%iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <25-01-012@comp.compilers> References: <25-01-004@comp.compilers> <25-01-010@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="50023"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: code, books, comment Posted-Date: 20 Jan 2025 10:27:46 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:3624 antispam@fricas.org writes: > 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. 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]