Re: Is Assembler Language essential in compiler construction?

On 2009-02-09 05:34:36 -0500, marco.m.petersen@gmail.com said:


> I mean, if you wrote a program that converts code from BASIC to C++
> then calls another compiler to do the compilation process, wouldn't
> that be considered as a compiler?


It depends on what you want to get out of your compiler. A lot of
compilers, especially when they're in the proof-of-concept stage, will
target another language, such as C. If your primary goal in writing
the compiler isn't to worry about the back-end stuff (register
allocation and all those fun things), then it's easier to just target
C, and you get portability to boot.


You will be limited in what you can do if you aren't familiar with
assembly, though.


Cheers,
Mike

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