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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 solving modern computing problems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800204805
Length 494 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Clinton  L. Jeffery Clinton L. Jeffery
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Programming Language Frontends
2. Chapter 1: Why Build Another Programming Language? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Programming Language Design 4. Chapter 3: Scanning Source Code 5. Chapter 4: Parsing 6. Chapter 5: Syntax Trees 7. Section 2: Syntax Tree Traversals
8. Chapter 6: Symbol Tables 9. Chapter 7: Checking Base Types 10. Chapter 8: Checking Types on Arrays, Method Calls, and Structure Accesses 11. Chapter 9: Intermediate Code Generation 12. Chapter 10: Syntax Coloring in an IDE 13. Section 3: Code Generation and Runtime Systems
14. Chapter 11: Bytecode Interpreters 15. Chapter 12: Generating Bytecode 16. Chapter 13: Native Code Generation 17. Chapter 14: Implementing Operators and Built-In Functions 18. Chapter 15: Domain Control Structures 19. Chapter 16: Garbage Collection 20. Chapter 17: Final Thoughts 21. Section 4: Appendix
22. Assessments 23. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Unicon Essentials

An intermediate code instruction set

Intermediate code is like machine-independent assembler code for an abstract CPU. The instruction set defines a set of opcodes. Each opcode specifies its semantics, including how many operands it uses and what state changes occur from executing it. Because this is intermediate code, we do not have to worry about registers or addressing modes – we can just define state changes in terms of what modifications must occur in main memory. The intermediate code instruction set includes both regular instructions and pseudo instructions, as is the case for other assembler languages. Let's look at a set of opcodes for the Jzero language. There are two categories of opcodes: instructions and declarations.

Instructions

Except for immediate mode, the operands of instructions are addresses and instructions that implicitly dereference values in memory located at those addresses. On typical modern machines, units of words are 64 bits. Offsets...

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