40 year old compilers

From	glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c, comp.compilers
Subject	40 year old compilers
Date	2013-06-03 00:14 +0000
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<13-06-004@comp.compilers> (permalink)

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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.

I still have http://www.amazon.com/dp/047132776X (Gries) that I bought
about 35 years ago, but that might not be the best to understand
C compilers.

So, I wonder (cross post replies) about favorite 40 year old compiler
books, especially if written using C-like languages for examples, or
otherwise better than average for understanding C compilers.

Most should be availabl for low prices on the used book market.
Gries is $0.01 plus $3.99 for shipping.

For a description of the development of C, and a few other languages,
one might look at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578700094 only about 15
years old, and available used starting at $0.80 (plus shipping).

-- glen
[Seventh edition Unix C compiler description here http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/vol2/ctour.bun ]

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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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