Re: [Tinycc-devel] Can a biggener (and idiot) like me read and understand TCC's backend so I can create my own frontend with it?

[rempas]

27 Ιαν 2022, 00:13 Από tinycc-devel@nongnu.org:

> If your language is quite different from C, and you wish to make a fast 
> compiler, I would suggest building  the compiler yourself. If you can make 
> EBNF of the langage syntax, your frontend is almost done. Take some fast 
> parser generator. I strongly recommend Coco/R because it generates easy to 
> understand and fast parser code and suipports different programming languages.
> The Compiler Generator Coco/R (jku.at) 
> <https://ssw.jku.at/Research/Projects/Coco/>
>
Thank you! I will look it out!

> What is here interesting, you can add code in your favorite language to be 
> executed after any syntax element is recognized inside (.    .)  brackets. It 
> may be storing new variables during the declaration into the table , 
> recognizing the variable already in the table or machine code 
> generating. It is relatively easy to generate assembly code, but it is not 
> the fastest way to execute
>
I'm sorry but I don't understand what you are talking about here. Can you 
please explain me?

> In a case of machine code, you need to know also about executable format 
> (headers and sections), instruction encoding and code patching in case of 
> jumps.
>
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking and I would like to find a book or something 
that will show how to do that properly. At least the basic ones cause like I 
said, it is very very hard to read references when you don't know anything in 
this topic!