c - How to write a very basic compiler - Software Engineering Stack . . . Go with an existing educational language instead, and focus on learning about compilers The following two are specifically designed for classroom use in compiler courses and by extension are great for a hobby compiler project ChocoPy ChocoPy is a concise Python subset, which can be implemented in a time-frame reasonable for a hobby compiler
programming languages - Why doesnt Python need a compiler? - Software . . . The majority of modern high-performance language implementations combine both an interpreter and a compiler (or even several compilers) for maximum performance Actually, it is impossible to run any program without an interpreter After all, a compiler is just a program which translates a program from one language to another language
How Does A Compiler Work? - Software Engineering Stack Exchange A compiler is a program that translates the source code for another program from a programing language into executable code The source code is typically in a high-level programming language (e g Pascal, C, C++, Java, Perl, C#, etc )
Compiler Warnings - Software Engineering Stack Exchange The compiler has been written by total experts in the language If they are reporting that something is a bit wiffy (think code smell) then the code should be reviewed It is entirely possible to write code that compiles without errors and without warnings
compiler - How can I implement an if statement in an interpreter . . . Hardly anything that goes by the term JIT compiler stores the generated code in files The real distinction is that JIT compilers generate machine code to be executed by the CPU while the interpreters you seem to be talking about generate some sort of byte code that is then interpreted by a virtual machine interpreter
Is Ken Thompsons compiler hack still a threat? There's a theoretical chance for this to happen There is, however, a way of checking if a specific compiler (with available source code) has been compromised, through David A Wheeler's Diverse double-compiling Basically, use both the suspected compiler and another independently developed compiler to compile the source of the suspect compiler
When to pay for C++ compilers - Software Engineering Stack Exchange Having worked on a for-pay compiler, I believe the main reason to pay for a compiler is for the support contract If the customer has a problem with their code and suspects a compiler bug, they can ask the compiler vendor to investigate possible solutions (on the vendor's dime, not their's), possibly with a deadline for a response solution
compiler - GCC vs clang LLVM -- pros and cons of each - Software . . . License for GCC runtime libraries adds another layer of restrictions while Clang compiler runtime (compiler-rt library) is under permissive MIT license Summary: compile with Clang when you develop the program, and with GCC for the final build (but make sure that its faster and doesn't break) Stick with Clang LLVM if you do compiler research
compiler - What exactly is a compile target? - Software Engineering . . . In programming languages, it is a compiler Thus, the source for a compiler is the programming language (C), while the target is the bytecode (machine-level instructions) We often use target in compilation because different systems (CPU architectures) have different instruction sets, e g ARM, MIPS, etc The compiler needs to know which