Compiler Design and Construction

This is a guide to compiler construction using compiler's compiler tools like Flex and Bison. Using both tools, you can focus on the concept of compiler without the hassle of building a compiler from scratch. Still, you are required to be fluent in C programming in order to use both tools and the generated C code should be compiled using a pure ANSI C compiler like GCC (GNU Compiler Collection).

This book presents GENTLE, an integrated system for compiler writers. GENTLE supports the description of compilers at a very high level and relieves users from the need to deal with implementation details. It has been used in large industrial projects and for constructing various commercial products. Users report that GENTLE significantly increases productivity.

The purpose of this book is to provide practical advice on writing a compiler, together with some practical examples of both compilers and interpreters, in order to break away from the concept that building compilers and interpreters are impossible tasks.

This book addresses the essential aspects of compiler design at a level that is perfect for today's undergraduate. Working from the basics, the book provides the clearest, most cohesive treatment of the topic available for the junioror senior-level student.

This is a modern text written by two leaders in the field, demonstrates how a compiler is built.

This updated edition has an expanded 'Concepts' and 'Grammar Files' sections, and a greatly expanded 'Debugging Your Parser' section. There is also a new FAQ section added to the appendix. Some obsolete material was removed as well.

Parsing techniques provide a solid basis for compiler construction and linguistics, and contribute to all existing software: they enable Web browsers to analyze HTML pages and PostScript printers to analyze PostScript, and some of the more advanced techniques are used in code generation in compilers and in data compression. Also their importance as general pattern recognizers is slowly being acknowledged.

Implementing a programming language means bridging the gap from the programmer's high-level thinking to the machine's zeros and ones. If this is done in an efficient and reliable way, programmers can concentrate on the actual problems they have to solve, rather than on the details of machines. But understanding the whole chain from languages to machines is still an essential part of the training of any serious programmer. It will result in a more competent programmer, who will moreover be able to develop new languages. A new language is often the best way to solve a problem, and less difficult than it may sound.

This book focuses on the compilation of two important concepts of Scala : mixin inheritance and run time types. The compilation techniques are presented in the context of the Java virtual machine, but could be adapted easily to other similar environments. Mixin inheritance is a relatively recent form of inheritance, offering new capabilities compared to single inheritance, without the complexity of multiple inheritance.