Re: [Oopic-compiler-devel] C Compiler

[Andrew P. <wa...@ic...>]

Sounds promising.  I'll have a look at it.

At 12:25 PM 5/20/2004 +0100, Neil Durant wrote:
>I've been looking to see if there are any simple open source C compilers
>out there that we could use as a starting point for our OOPIC compiler, or
>at least use it for ideas etc.
>
>Anyway, I've found one, which compiles to assembler for a stack-based
>virtual machine:
>
>  <http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/fbcc.html>
>
>It uses Flex/Bison for parsing, and implements ANSI C.  It's released under
>the GPL licence so there's no reason why we can use any or as much or the
>source code as we need.
>
>As it compiles to assembler for a stack-based VM, I thought it may be
>pretty close to what we need - we may just have to re-write the code
>generation stuff to get it to generate OOPIC "assembler".
>
>I thought I'd post this so we can all have a look at it.  We should only
>use something like this if we fully understand how it works, and if it does
>actually work!  The code looks fairly clean and well-written (from a quick
>browse around the source files), so it all looks promising.
>
>At the very least we can use their Flex/Bison grammar files for parsing
>ANSI C and creating the internal representation of the code.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Neil
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>Neil Durant
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