Re: Is it just me or...

Carl Cerecke <cdc@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>
11 Feb 1997 22:22:05 -0500

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From: Carl Cerecke <cdc@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 11 Feb 1997 22:22:05 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 97-01-180 97-01-185 97-02-058
Keywords: books

> I would like to know why I can't find a good book on compiler
>writing that isn't either:
> a) "Here's the source for a Very Tiny <language>." or
> b) a jungle of mathematical notation that is not explained in the
>text. (I'm not a mathephobe, but I do like to understand what I
>read.)


The book "A retargetable C compiler: Design and implementation" by
C Fraser and D Hanson explains the source code for their C-compiler,
including code-generation for three targets (R3000,SPARC,386).
The book is a "literate program".


I've only read the bit on parsing and syntax error recovery so YMMV.


Cheers,
cdc
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