Re:To become a good C programmer (2011)
by umanwizard on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:19AM
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I see. So you are excluding the preprocessor, linker, type-checker (for some languages this is a separate program), assembler, etc.?
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Yeah. I'm sorry about the terminology. I guess I just like the term "code generator".
When I use that term I envision simple filters that take ASCII input, maybe even some sort of "template", and transform it into some other format that's useful. Ideally, asm. But not always.
For example, in GCC, for x86, there's a couple of programs that operate on i386-opc.tbl and i386-reg.tbl. I would not call them "code generators" but I suspect they are needed in order for "gcc -s" to work.