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Growing a Compiler

by Bill McKeeman

 

07 May 2009 (Updated 15 Jun 2009)

Bootstrap compilers starting from a tiny compiler-compiler.

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The tiny compiler is a kind of grammar. More capable compilers can be built, and so on. The components, and a paper describing them are included. This is a later version of FX 23255.

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to acknowledge the following in the creation of this submission:
Can a tiny compiler-compiler grow into something useful?

MATLAB release MATLAB 7.7 (R2008b)
Other requirements Some of the code requires a 32-bit Intel x86 hardware. The whitepaper can be read on any platform.
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Comments and Ratings (2)
07 May 2009 John D'Errico

I learned something here. Thanks.

08 May 2009 Bill McKeeman

Some of the internal links are broken. I'll fix them as soon as I find out how.

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15 Jun 2009

Fixed broken URLs to compiler course

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bootstrap compiler decompiler grammar whitepaper intel x86 assem Bill McKeeman 07 May 2009 14:58:20
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