Tiny C Compiler VS LLVM

For what it's worth you can implement a C compiler in under 10kLOC. The chibi C compiler is only a few thousand lines [1]. There is also Cake [2] and the tiny C compiler [3] which are both relatively small. [1] https://github.com/rui314/chibicc [3] https://bellard.org/tcc/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

I was going to say, the list should include something by Fabrice Bellard. Tiny C Compiler is one. https://bellard.org/tcc/ I was thinking, maybe first version/commit of QEMU would be interesting to read. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

I occasionally use tcc (https://bellard.org/tcc/) like an interpreter (`tcc -run`), it's convenient for certain odd tasks. Not so much for interactive stuff, but if I'm building little PoCs for an idea that will get dropped into a C project, or fiddling with structs work out how something should/is being stored, or in situations where I'm making stuff that interacts with or examples based on C code and I want to... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

This reminded me the idea of compilers bootstrapping (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35714194). That is, now you can code in SectorC some slightly more advanced version of C capable of compiling TCC (https://bellard.org/tcc/), and then with TCC you can go forward to GCC and so on. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

The tinyc compiler reads scripts like a c-interpreter, with shebang and all. Source: about 1 year ago

'Computer Architeture: A Quantitative Apporach" and/or more specific design types (mips, arm, etc) can be found under the Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architeture and Design. "Getting Started with LLVM Core Libraries: Get to Grips With Llvm Essentials and Use the Core Libraries to Build Advanced Tools " "The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) : LLVM" https://aosabook.org/en/v1/llvm.html... - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

You can never mistake type_declaration with an identifier, otherwise the program will not work. Aside from that constraint, you are free to name them whatever you like, there is no one standard, and each parser has it own naming conventions, unless you are planning to use something like LLVM. If you are interested, you can see examples of naming in different language parsers in the AST Explorer. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

C++ compiler which compiles the Rust as if it were C++ (LLVM). Source: 5 months ago

LLVM isn't a virtual machine, but WASM is. That's obviously a common misconception given the name -- LLVM was meant to be a VM early in its life, but never was, and isn't now. It's clarified in the first sentence of a home page - https://llvm.org/ It's basically a bunch of C++ libraries that implements an IR that changes over time, which help you write compilers. Curiously, I think a decade or more ago there was... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

This will be much easier using tools like LLVM, but this is the basic outline of creating a compiler. Source: 10 months ago