Basics of compiler design

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• DearVolt · Jan 16, 2017 · Recommends

  …that's awesome! I picked up mine second hand at a textbook distributor for the equivalent of about $30. For anyone interested in other books on compiler construction, I would recommend these: - "The Basics of Compiler Design" by Torben Mogensen - "Modern Compiler Implementation in C" by Andrew Appel (ML and Java versions available too) - "Modern Compiler Design" by Grune, Bal et al. The Dragon Book is obviously infamous…

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• aalhour · Jul 10, 2017 · Recommends

  …the two following books as a parallel reading: 1. Engineering a Compiler, K. Cooper, L. Torczon. 2. Modern Compiler Implementation in ML, by A. Appel. If you want a smaller book, the I recommend the Basics of Compiler Design by T. Mogensen, it is a nice and short one. All of these resources are linked to in the list. Happy tinkering!

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• rlm · May 10, 2009 · Recommends

  I've read it as a part of the introductory compiler course at DIKU (Computer Science dept. of University of Copenhagen). It's good for exactly what the title says: Basics of Compiler Design. It won't make you a compiler guru, but it will give you a good grasp of the fundamentals. If anyone is interested, I could share the weekly assignments and the exam project from the course. The advanced…

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• chrisaycock · Dec 13, 2019 · Recommends

  As someone currently building a language, books like this have been critical. Basics of Compiler Design covers a lot of the common ground of compiler construction from a more theoretical standpoint. Other recent books I've found really helpful include: Crafting Interpreters by Bob Nystrom (@munificent…

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• bhrgunatha · Aug 14, 2017 · Mentions

  …learned about compilers we were introduced to T-diagrams, sometimes called tombstone or bratman diagrams and shown how to bootstrap a compiler for a high level language from scratch [1]. Torben Mogensen's Basics of Compiler Design [2] - Chapter 13 is devoted to bootstrapping a compiler, which introduces them. [1] scratch meaning a computer (with relevant hardware) with a CPU with it's machine code instructions and some way to…

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• creature · Nov 26, 2013 · Mentions

  Basics of Compiler Design is quite theoretical, but it's available online for free: http://www.diku.dk/~torbenm/Basics/

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• spydez · Mar 14, 2008 · Mentions

  Haven't read it yet, so I can't comment on how good of a book it is, but "Basics of Compiler Design" is free to download. http://www.diku.dk/~torbenm/Basics/

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• Natsu · Apr 26, 2011 · Mentions

  …permission to do what, and that data simply isn't available. You can guess, but if third parties became legally liable for being wrong, things would get ugly fast. For example, just the other day, the book "Basics of Compiler Design" was up on HN. The authors are giving a PDF of it away for personal use and at-cost reprinting. If one naively assumed that everyone giving away PDFs of published books was some sort of evil pirate,…

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• digitalbanana · Aug 26, 2011 · Mentions

  i had to put together something resembling a compiler for a class, i used mainly two sources: for the theory part: http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/torbenm/Basics/ (Basics of Compiler Design - Free book) actualy put something together: http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/ (PLY (Python Lex-Yacc)) maybe not the solution for real world use, but helped me jump past some nitpicking parts with the C /…

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