Re: 40 year old compilers

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From	Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com>
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Am 03.06.2013 02:14, schrieb glen herrmannsfeldt:
> Someone in comp.lang.c is interested in understanding how a 40 years
> old C compilers works, but doesn't know much about compilers.
>
> Seems to me that one way to learn is to read 40 year old compiler books. ...

Have a look at books from Aho and Ullman. Those are well written
(IMO) and were quasi standard to read hereabouts around the late
1970's and 1980's.

Janis
[That's the classic 1977 Dragon Book, rather than the more recent
and much more expensive editions.  Link to Amazon"
http://net.gurus.org/bk/a/0201000229 -John]

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40 year old compilers glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2013-06-03 00:14 +0000
  Re: 40 year old compilers anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-06-05 16:22 +0000
    Re: 40 year old compilers Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2013-06-06 17:32 +0000
  Re: 40 year old compilers wclodius@earthlink.net (William Clodius) - 2013-06-05 21:30 -0600
    Re: 40 year old compilers "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2013-06-07 18:09 -0500
  Re: 40 year old compilers "Derek M. Jones" <derek@knosof.co.uk> - 2013-06-06 12:52 +0100
    Re: 40 year old compilers mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2013-06-08 10:02 -0700
  Re: 40 year old compilers Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2013-06-21 17:29 +0200

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