Comment by simonw
4 hours 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/
4 hours 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)