dev@lang@compilation

Compilation

Resources

Blogs

• Joe Duffy's blog:

  • Midori: http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/

• Paranoid Coding

  • Exploring borrowed annotations in C#

Books

• Crafting Interpreters
  • Wayback Machine:
    • https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://craftinginterpreters.com/
    • https://web.archive.org/web/20220424045616/https://craftinginterpreters.com/sample.pdf
  • Other works by the author:
    • https://web.archive.org/web/20220611091546/http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/sample.pdf

Scholar

• Increasing the scope and resolution of Interprocedural Static Single Assignment

Type Inference

• Gradual Typing + inference

  • mono- vs bi-directional type inference (Hindley-Milner): https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/type-inference/
    • Unification Algorithm: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/unification/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradual_typing
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindley%E2%80%93Milner_type_system
  • http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/FOOL/fool08/siek-slides.pdf
  • https://www.cs.umd.edu/~avik/projects/iogti/paper.pdf
  • https://www.irif.fr/~gc/papers/popl19.pdf
  • http://ecee.colorado.edu/~siek/dls08igtlc.pdf
  • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330153340_Dynamic_type_inference_for_gradual_Hindley-Milner_typing/fulltext/5c30159f92851c22a35b342d/Dynamic-type-inference-for-gradual-Hindley-Milner-typing.pdf

• Lexing

  • Compiler Design (Lexical analysis): https://www.tutorialspoint.com/compiler_design/compiler_design_lexical_analysis.htm
  • Compiler Construction/Lexical analysis: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Compiler_Construction/Lexical_analysis

Wikipedia

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator-precedence_parser
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting-yard_algorithm

Code / sample languages

C

• chibicc: A Small C Compiler
  • An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction
  • https://github.com/rui314/8cc
• tcc
• lcc
  • Companion book: https://drh.github.io/lcc/

XSharp

• https://www.x-sharp.net/
• https://github.com/CosmosOS/XSharp

Minsk

• Github: https://github.com/terrajobst/minsk
• Youtube Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRAdsfhKI4OWNOSfS7EUu5GRAVmze1t2y

Go

• Toolchain: https://dave.cheney.net/tag/toolchain
• https://go.googlesource.com/go/+refs
• https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/refs/heads/master/src
• https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/refs/tags/weekly.2009-11-06/src/cmd/gc/walk.c

Cflat (Wayback machine)

• https://web.archive.org/web/2005*/http://iti.spbu.ru/eng/grants/Cflat.asp
• https://web.archive.org/web/20051003220405/http://iti.spbu.ru/eng/grants/Cflat.asp

Pony

• https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc
  • https://www.ponylang.io/learn/
  • https://www.ponylang.io/discover/
  • https://playground.ponylang.io/

Stark

• https://github.com/stark-lang/stark
  • https://xoofx.com/blog/2020/03/06/stark-language-frontend-compiler/
  • https://xoofx.com/blog/2020/03/05/stark-melody-dotnet-sel4/

C++ based Lexer/Parser (VS Magazine)

• https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2014/05/01/how-to-write-your-own-compiler-part-1.aspx

JS

• JInt: Javascript Interpreter for .NET
• JS + Wasm: https://www.courier.com/blog/build-a-webassembly-language-lexing/
  • https://github.com/drew-y/wispy

Misc Tricks

• TextReader to IEnumerable: http://blog.einbu.no/2009/03/parsing-textfiles-with-linq/

Cross-compilation

• toolchains: https://toolchains.bootlin.com/

Backend

SSA

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form
• Understanding static single assignment forms
• Methods to implement a register-based IR in static single assignment form
• SSA in Scheme
• Translating Out of Static Single Assignment Form

LLVM

• http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html
• https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/MyFirstLanguageFrontend/index.html
• Mapping High Level Constructs to LLVM IR

IL

• Codeproject: Building a simple .NET Compiler
• Compiler Construction: With C# and DotNet Intermediate Language
• LCC: https://sites.google.com/site/lccretargetablecompiler/