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A simple Translator
What you will learn in this chapter
- Grammar of a simple high level language
- A lexical analyzer for that language
- A Recursive-descent Parser
- Intermediate code
- How to generate code for a target machine?
- A target virtual machine
- Need for optimization
- Simulator for the virtual machine
Key Words
simple, Scanner, parser, RDP, intermediate code, virtual machine, simulator, optimization
In this chapter, we discuss a very simple C-like language called simple and its compiler. Though due to pedagogic necessity the language is kept as simple as possible, it will illustrate all the significant issues of a compiler construction. Concentration will be on exposing the compiler writing steps rather than power of the language being ...
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