Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch
Author: Nora Sandler (Author)
Publisher finelybook 出版社: No Starch Press
Publication Date 出版日期: 2024-08-20
Language 语言: English
Print Length 页数: 792 pages
ISBN-10: 1718500424
ISBN-13: 9781718500426
Book Description
A fun, hands-on guide to writing your own compiler for a real-world programming language.
Compilers are at the heart of everything programmers do, yet even experienced developers find them intimidating. For those eager to truly grasp how compilers work,
Writing a C Compiler dispels the mystery. This book guides you through a fun and engaging project where you’ll learn what it takes to compile a real-world programming language to actual assembly code. Writing a C Compiler will take you step by step through the process of building your own compiler for a significant subset of C—no prior experience with compiler construction or assembly code needed. Once you’ve built a working compiler for the simplest C program, you’ll add new features chapter by chapter. The algorithms in the book are all in pseudocode, so you can implement your compiler in whatever language you like. Along the way, you’ll explore key concepts like:- Lexing and parsing: Learn how to write a lexer and recursive descent parser that transform C code into an abstract syntax tree.
- Program analysis: Discover how to analyze a program to understand its behavior and detect errors.
- Code generation: Learn how to translate C language constructs like arithmetic operations, function calls, and control-flow statements into x64 assembly code.
- Optimization techniques: Improve performance with methods like constant folding, dead store elimination, and register allocation.
Compilers aren’t terrifying beasts—and with help from this hands-on, accessible guide, you might even turn them into your friends for life.
Review
—Lars Bergstrom, Director of Engineering at google
“This book is a great introduction to the topic of compilers for programming languages. It is extremely thorough, with many suggestions for further reading, while being quite enjoyable to read
— a ‘soup-to-nuts’ treatment of compiler writing for C-like languages.”—John Reppy, Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago
“It is refreshing to read a book on compiler design with a focus on implementing a practical real-world language, rather than working through dry academic exercises . . . practical, fun, and exciting to read if you are sick of reading textbooks on the subject.”
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