You're reading from Build Your Own Programming Language A programmer's guide to designing compilers, interpreters, and DSLs for modern computing problems

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804618028

Length 556 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Java EE

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Clinton L. Jeffery

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface

1. Section I: Programming Language Frontends

2. Why Build Another Programming Language? FREE CHAPTER

3. Programming Language Design

4. Scanning Source Code

5. Parsing

6. Syntax Trees

7. Section II: Syntax Tree Traversals

8. Symbol Tables

9. Checking Base Types

10. Checking Types on Arrays, Method Calls, and Structure Accesses

11. Intermediate Code Generation

12. Syntax Coloring in an IDE

13. Section III: Code Generation and Runtime Systems

14. Preprocessors and Transpilers

15. Bytecode Interpreters

16. Generating Bytecode

17. Native Code Generation

18. Implementing Operators and Built-In Functions

19. Domain Control Structures

20. Garbage Collection

21. Final Thoughts

22. Section IV: Appendix

23. Answers

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

25. Index

Appendix: Unicon Essentials

Technical requirements

In this chapter, you will need the following tools:

Iyacc, a parser generator for Unicon. Iyacc comes with all recent Unicon builds, so you should already have it.
BYACC/J, a parser generator for Java. BYACC/J is descended from Berkeley YACC, an open source YACC implementation. You can get the BYACC/J source code from SourceForge.net. Instructions are given below.

You can download this chapter’s code from our GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Build-Your-Own-Programming-Language-Second-Edition/tree/master/ch4.

The Code in Action video for the chapter can be found here: https://bit.ly/3ClVCSf.

At the time of writing, the BYACC/J source distribution on GitHub contains a command-line option that we will use that is not in the binary distributions or other source .zip distributions on that site. To obtain a copy of BYACC/J, first clone the Git via a command such as the following: