2 UNARY OPERATORS
C has several unary operators, which operate on a single value. In this chapter, you’ll extend your compiler to handle two unary operators: negation and bitwise complement. You’ll transform complex, nested unary expressions into simple operations that can be expressed in assembly. Instead of performing this transformation in a single compiler pass, you’ll introduce a new intermediate representation between the AST produced by the parser and the assembly AST produced by the assembly generation pass. You’ll ...
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