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Paperback: 864 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2nd Edition edition (21 Aug 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0471113530
ISBN-13: 978-0471113539
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.8 x 5 cm

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Quickly master all the skills you need to build your own compilers and interpreters in C++

Whether you are a professional programmer who needs to write a compiler at work or a personal programmer who wants to write an interpreter for a language of your own invention, this book quickly gets you up and running with all the knowledge and skills you need to do it right. It cuts right to the chase with a series of skill–building exercises ranging in complexity from the basics of reading a program to advanced object–oriented techniques for building a compiler in C++.

Here′s how it works:

Every chapter contains anywhere from one to three working utility programs that provide a firsthand demonstration of concepts discussed, and each chapter builds upon the preceding ones. You begin by learning how to read a program and produce a listing, deconstruct a program into tokens (scanning), and how to analyze it based on its syntax (parsing). From there, Ron Mak shows you step by step how to build an actual working interpreter and an interactive debugger. Once you′ve mastered those skills, you′re ready to apply them to building a compiler that runs on virtually any desktop computer.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best introduction to this subject I have read, 17 Sep 1999

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This is a clear introduction to interpreters and compilers. The main project in the book is the development of a Pascal compiler. The book contains all of the source(printed, not cdrom) for the Pascal interpreter, compiler and debugger. If you could sit down now and write a compiler, then you probably don't need this book. If, however, you need to know how tokenizers and parsers conspire to build symbol tables that can be traversed by interpreters or compilers to run programs then this book is a very good starting point.

While I recommend this book strongly, I do have some resevations:

It claims to use C++. This is true, but a lot of C code is present. The author 'ported' a lot of the code from C to C++. It shows. The C++ is all pre-standard C++.

The book contains a *lot* of source code, but no cdrom, and I haven't found it online. Be prepared to do a lot of typing.

The implementation of Pascal developed in the book doesn't cover all of Pascal. I think this is good. I managed to add pointer support(in a limited way). I had never worked with compilers before, and it was fun to add functionality to a compiler. Try it.

The compiler that is developed emits 8086 assembler. It took me a while to get my assembler to eat this.

Despite my complaints, I strongly recommend this book.

I would like to see version 3 use standard C++, and emit at least 80386 opcodes.

If you've read this far, buy it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A good introduction to compiler basics, 7 Mar 1998

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This book delivers exactly what it promises--a complete step-by-step example of writing 'a compiler'. The book is simply a description of one way to build one compiler (and interpreter, and debugger, and various useful utilities).

The basics are well presented. First a topic is described, then source code is presented and explained. The results of test runs are shown, and then off to the next topic. Advanced topics, such as optimization, are intentially left out.

When a person is ready to read a first book about compilers, this is a good one. All source code developed/described in the book is available on-line.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Bought it. Sent it back., 18 Sep 2008

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About 75% of this book is simply a printout of the code. There is not very much expository text, the compiler code is left to speak for itself. However, a number of features of the book annoyed me. Firstly the book uses an incredibly arcane dialect of C++. The author actually does this:

#define false 0
#define true 1
#define bool int

(bool could be a typedef, I forget).

I concluded pretty rapidly that the book was not going to be useful for me.

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