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| From | Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.compilers |
| Subject | Re: Self compiling compiler |
| Date | 2016-03-31 14:16 -0400 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <16-03-017@comp.compilers> (permalink) |
| References | <16-03-013@comp.compilers> |
ERSHC wrote:
>I'd like to teach an undergraduate class based on the Thompson hack
>(see Ken Thompson's Turing Award lecture). I don't want to write a
>"whole" compiler, so need a compiler that can compile itself,
>preferably one that runs under Linux and is reasonably small. Can
>anyone point me to something more appropriate than gcc (which is far
>from small)?
Nicklaus Wirth's "Compiler Construction" text (his 3rd in this genre)
describes the small language Oberon-0 and walks thru writing a compiler
for this.
The compiler targets a RISC architecture for which he provides an emulator.
And - Dr. Wirth made the book available for free - you can get it from:
http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/CBEAll.pdf
and - you can read an HTML version (as well as get a copy of the sources)
from:
https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/CompilerConstruction/index.html
as with all of Dr. Wirth's code - it is very small and very elegant while
simulaneously touching on all the major topics. The text and the code
are very approachable to an undergraduate student.
- Dave Rivers -
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rivers@dignus.com Work: (919) 676-0847
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