How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days

Re:How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days by astrange on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @10:50PM (#10742248)

Strong disagreement. The Dragon Book is super expensive, spends all its time discussing the easy part (parsing) as if it was complicated, then spends no time discussing modern algorithms in code generation.

Working from an example like LLVM or reading Appel or Wirth's books are better.

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Re:How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days by isolate on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @10:56PM (#10742274)

Also Muchnick's book is good for the middle end.

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