Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: The Basics of Compiler Construction with LLVM
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Installing LLVM
Compiling LLVM versus installing binaries
Getting the prerequisites ready
Ubuntu
Fedora and RedHat
FreeBSD
OS X
Windows
Cloning the repository and building from source
Configuring Git
Cloning the repository
Creating a build directory
Generating the build system files
Compiling and installing LLVM
Customizing the build process
Variables defined by CMake
Using LLVM-defined build configuration variables
Summary
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The Structure of a Compiler
Building blocks of a compiler
An arithmetic expression language
Formalism for specifying the syntax of a programming language
How does grammar help the compiler writer?
Lexical analysis
A hand-written lexer
Syntactical ...
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