Re:Writing a C Compiler, Part 1
by meadori on Friday December 01, 2017 @11:52AM
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> is to compile down to an emulation of a straightforward machine (I really like MSP430 for this)
What exactly do you mean by this? Direct object code emission?
> the emulator is easier than the compiler, by a lot
Yeah, definite +1 there. For most simple machines it really is not much more than a loop with a switch on the opcode where the cases update the CPU state.
What exactly do you mean by this? Direct object code emission?
> the emulator is easier than the compiler, by a lot
Yeah, definite +1 there. For most simple machines it really is not much more than a loop with a switch on the opcode where the cases update the CPU state.