[Oopic-compiler-devel] Compiler design

[Neil D. <nd...@us...>]

Did either have you have any ideas on the overall design of the compiler?
I've been re-reading my book on Flex/Bison, and it would definitely be a
big time-saver using those tools.  They would generate the C code for
parsing the grammar we provide (in a simple notation), and allow us to call
functions when the various semantic constructs are encountered.  That way
we can build up a parse tree and populate symbol tables, and the
subsequently walk the tree generating code.  We could then add an
optimisation stage that checks through the Forth-like codes to see if
anything silly is being done.

This is the basic idea I have in mind, although I know there's a heck of a
lot of detail I've just hopped over!  I'd be interested to hear how you
guys envisioned how the compiler would be structured.

Thoughts?

Neil
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Neil Durant
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