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An Incremental Approach to Compiler ConstructionAbdulaziz Ghuloum (Indiana University), An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction
This paper from the Scheme workshop presents an extended tutorial showing how to implement a compiler from Scheme to x86 assembly language. The compiler is written in Scheme, obviously (something that may confuse students, I might add, so beware). An important aspect of the presentation of the material is that the compiler is built incrementally, and the product of each step is a working compiler for a growing subset of the language. This is similar to the EOPL approach. In contrast many compiler textbooks and courses follow a different route, in which each phase is dedicated to building a different part of the compiler (i.e., lexer, parser etc.), and thus the student only sees how the parts interconnect, and gets the satisfaction of seeing the compiler work, at the very end of the process. Supporting material can be found here. |
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