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Monty Compiler

Description

Monty is a compiler for a simple and low level programming language that is very close to python with the following features:

• pythonish syntax
• variables have to be declared
• pure procedural language (not object oriented)
• intended for stack architecture
• arrays (equals pointers) and structs for memory access
• all opcode is defined as assembler functions
• can be adapted to different cpus without changing the compiler code
• only about 3000 lines of code for the compiler

Does it work?

I only did very basic testing but the most important things work.
There must be lots of bugs left but to find them someone has to use it...

CPU-Simulation

The code is executed on a simulated stack processor. I used it for early experiments. Now it is used for testing purposes only.

History

Around 2006 I was experimenting with Processor architectures. The goal was to create a computing platform with the following features:

• mass- multiprocessing architecture
• very simple stack Processors
• multiple processors instead of a pipeline in one core
• no big memory, hardware pipes and local memory instead

I soon realised that I could not program those processors in assembler because I had to rewrite the entire code every time I changed something in the hardware.
So I started Monty.

And now?

I do not know yet if I want to continue my experiments. But I have been working on Monty for so long that I wanted to finish and publish it.
If I continue my work depends on the interest in it.
So if you are interested in using Monty, please tell me!