 | | From: | foaud167 | | Subject: | ARM Compiler | | Date: | 12 Jan 2005 22:58:24 -0500 |
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 | Lately, I have been considering writing a compiler (just for the heck
of it). I decided that i will write it in java and produce ARM code,
but i haven't decided on the input language yet. i am thinking about
C. Any thoughts would be really great.
-fouad
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| | From: | Peter Ilberg | | Subject: | Re: ARM Compiler | | Date: | 15 Jan 2005 20:53:05 -0500 |
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| Niklaus Wirth wrote a really nice book on compiler construction that
might be of interest to you. He explains the fundamentals of compiler
construction and builds a compiler for a subset of Oberon (a Pascal,
Modula-2 descendent) in about 120 pages. The book's out of print, but
he made a copy available for download for a class on compiler
construction:
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~phf/mir/wirth-compiler-1996.pdf
You might find other useful links on the class website:
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~phf/2005/winter/cs179e/
The complete source code for the Oberon compiler is available here:
http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~wirth/books/CompilerConstruction/
And finally, Wirth describes the implementation of an Oberon
compiler for the Strong-ARM platform in this technical report:
ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/publications/tech-reports/3xx/314.ps
Peter
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| | From: | Jürgen_Kahrs | | Subject: | Re: ARM Compiler | | Date: | 19 Jan 2005 22:13:01 -0500 |
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| Peter Ilberg wrote:
> Niklaus Wirth wrote a really nice book on compiler construction that
> might be of interest to you. He explains the fundamentals of compiler
> construction and builds a compiler for a subset of Oberon (a Pascal,
> Modula-2 descendent) in about 120 pages. The book's out of print, but
> he made a copy available for download for a class on compiler
> construction:
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> http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~phf/mir/wirth-compiler-1996.pdf
If this is a legal copy of the book, you should send a notice about it
to these people who collect such links:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/suggest.html
Their collection already contains links to Hoare's book about CSP,
Peyton Jones' tutorial about implementing functional languages and
Ait-Kaci's tutorial about Warren's Abstract Machine (Prolog).
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| | From: | Ivan Boldyrev | | Subject: | Re: ARM Compiler | | Date: | 22 Jan 2005 18:27:42 -0500 |
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| On 8995 day of my life Jürgen Kahrs wrote:
> Peyton Jones' tutorial about implementing functional languages
PJ recently publised on-line his out-of-print book "The Implementation
of Functional Programming Languages". The text is different from
tutorial.
http://research.microsoft.com/%7Esimonpj/papers/slpj-book-1987/index.htm
Currently it is just set of JPEGs. More appropriate version will be
released soon.
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Ivan Boldyrev
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| | From: | Torben Ægidius Mogensen | | Subject: | Re: ARM Compiler | | Date: | 14 Jan 2005 00:41:47 -0500 |
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| "foaud167" writes:
> Lately, I have been considering writing a compiler (just for the heck
> of it). I decided that i will write it in java and produce ARM code,
> but i haven't decided on the input language yet. i am thinking about
> C. Any thoughts would be really great.
The choice of input language depends on what you want to achieve. As
I understand it, it is mostly for the learning experience. This makes
C a bad choice for several reasons:
1) It has an arcane syntax where parsing depends on knowing if a name
is a type name or a variable name and in other cases requires
unbounded lookahead.
2) The semantics of C is ill-defined.
So you would spend most of your time on the front-end and in trying to
figure out what the meaning of certain constructs are. See, for
example, the recent discussion about C compilers on the comp.sys.arm
newsgroup.
So, I would suggest a well-defined language with a simple syntax. You
could choose a suitably simple subset of C or Pascal. Pascal has an
easy-to-parse syntax (it was designed for LL(1) parsing), but some of
its features (nested scopes and procedure parameters) are nontrivial
(though not terribly so) to implement correctly.
You could also pick a language from a compiler textbook, as these are
designed to be relatively simple to compile while still teaching the
most important issues. Good examples of such include the Tiger
language from Andrew Appel's "Modern Compiler Implementation in ..."
books or the Triangle language from Watt & Brown's "Programming
Language Processors in Java".
Torben
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| | From: | Dave Hansen | | Subject: | Re: ARM Compiler | | Date: | 14 Jan 2005 00:43:03 -0500 |
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| On 12 Jan 2005 22:58:24 -0500, "foaud167" wrote:
>Lately, I have been considering writing a compiler (just for the heck
>of it). I decided that i will write it in java and produce ARM code,
>but i haven't decided on the input language yet. i am thinking about
>C. Any thoughts would be really great.
>-fouad
There are enough C compilers already available for the ARM. Why
re-invent the wheel?
Just my opinion, but I would love to see a Modula-2 compiler.
Regards,
-=Dave
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Change is inevitable, progress is not.
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