
How to write a very basic compiler - Software Engineering Stack …
How can I write a basic compiler to convert a static text into a machine readable file? The next step will be introducing variables into the compiler; imagine that we want to write a compiler …
programming languages - Why doesn't Python need a compiler?
Feb 26, 2012 · Just wondering (now that I've started with C++ which needs a compiler) why Python doesn't need a compiler? I just enter the code, save it as an exec, and run it. In C++ I …
compiler - Isn't there a chicken-and-egg issue since GCC is written …
Dec 12, 2014 · Creating a compiler that is written in the same language that it compiles is called . The wikipedia article describes a number of ways that a compiler can be bootstrapped.
How do I create my own programming language and a compiler …
Jun 16, 2011 · A "compiler" is any device that translates from one programming language to another. One of the nice things about having a C# compiler that turns C# into IL, and an IL …
Why was the Itanium processor difficult to write a compiler for?
Apr 17, 2015 · The compiler aspect was not the only aspect which was overly ambitious. Is there any reason why Intel didn't specify a "simple Itanium bytecode" language, and provide a tool …
compiler - What exactly is a compile target? - Software …
Mar 21, 2017 · Multi-target compilers also offer compiler switches to support multiple target architectures. So, a compiler target is simply the output of the compile operation.
Compiler Warnings - Software Engineering Stack Exchange
Many compilers have warning messages to warn the programmers about potential runtime, logic and performance errors, most times, you quickly fix them, but what about unfixable warnings? …
Why does Python need both a compiler and an interpreter?
Jul 12, 2015 · I can understand the fact that Java needs both a compiler and an interpreter. It compiles source code to bytecode and then a virtual machine (on Windows, on Linux, on …
Understanding the differences: traditional interpreter, JIT compiler ...
I'm trying to understand the differences between a traditional interpreter, a JIT compiler, a JIT interpreter and an AOT compiler. An interpreter is just a machine (virtual or physical) that execu...
history - Why was the first compiler written before the first ...
Jul 28, 2014 · The first compiler was written by Grace Hopper in 1952 while the Lisp interpreter was written in 1958 by John McCarthy's student Steve Russell. Writing a compiler seems like …