Comment by blibble
3 hours ago
indeed
building a working C compiler from scratch is literally in my "teach yourself C in 24 hours" book from 30 years ago
3 hours ago
indeed
building a working C compiler from scratch is literally in my "teach yourself C in 24 hours" book from 30 years ago
Which book was that? Sounds excellent.
Might have been Compiler Design in C from 1990. Looks like that's available for free now: https://holub.com/compiler/
it's not that one, but it's in my parents house
you'll forgive me if I don't ring them in the early hours of the morning...
remember C was specifically designed to be easy to compile
(hence anachronisms like forward declarations)