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

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

Questions

Describe how intermediate code instructions with up to three addresses are converted into a sequence of stack machine instructions that contain at most one address.
If a particular instruction (say it is instruction 15, at byte offset 120) is targeted by five different labels (for example, L2, L3, L5, L8, and L13), how are the labels processed when generating binary bytecode?
In intermediate code, a method call consists of a sequence of PARM instructions followed by a CALL instruction. Does the described bytecode for doing a method call in bytecode match up well with the intermediate code? What is similar and what is different?
CALL instructions in object-oriented (OO) languages such as Jzero are always preceded by a reference to the object (self or this) on which the methods are being invoked… or are they? Explain a situation in which the CALL method instruction may have no object reference, and how the code generator described in this chapter...