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Build Your Own Programming Language

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804618028
Length 556 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Clinton  L. Jeffery Clinton L. Jeffery
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

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

Converting intermediate code to Jzero bytecode

The Jzero intermediate code generator from Chapter 9, Intermediate Code Generation, traversed a tree and created a list of intermediate code as a synthesized attribute in each tree node, named icode. The intermediate code for the whole program is the icode attribute in the root node of the syntax tree. In this section, we will use this list to produce our output bytecode. To generate bytecode, the gencode() method in the j0 class calls a new method in this class, named bytecode(), and passes it the intermediate code in root.icode as its input. The Unicon gencode() method that invokes this functionality in j0.icn looks like the following code block. The two highlighted lines at the end of the following code snippet are added for bytecode generation, verified by simple text output:

   method gencode(root)
      root.genfirst()
      root.genfollow()
      root.gentargets()
      root.gencode()
      labeltable := table()
      bcode...
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