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

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On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:38:42 -0300, Salvador Mirzo
<smirzo@antartida.xyz> wrote:

>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]

The Racket lanaguage (which is a Scheme variant) has a framework
called nanopass designed deliberately for teaching compilers.
https://docs.racket-lang.org/nanopass/index.html


I don't have URLs for papers (sorry!), but over the years, some groups
have written about using nanopass in compiler courses.

If Scheme(-like) is not to your liking, the ideas of nanopass have
been adopted and implemented in some other languages.  Search engines
are your friend.

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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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