Working through 'Writing A C Compiler'

10 months ago

The author decided to create a C compiler for the Hack processor from the nand2tetris book.
Found the book 'Writing a C Compiler' by No Starch Press and decided to work through it chapter by chapter.
The book is praised for its step-by-step approach, starting with a simple compiler in Chapter 1 that can handle basic return statements.
Each subsequent chapter adds more features, like unary operators in Chapter 2.
The book provides a large test suite for each chapter, allowing testing of various stages like lexer, parser, semantic analysis, etc.
The author has forked the original test suite and made some changes for Windows support.
The author is implementing the compiler in Rust and plans to blog about each chapter.
The book is highly recommended despite some minor criticisms that may be mentioned in future posts.

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