From: "Marp" <Marp AT 0 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 0>
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Subject: Re: Compiler Source [OT]
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:38:07 -0500
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You can check out lcc at http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/lcc/index.html

The source to lcc is freely available and there are docs that discuss how it
works.
There is also a news group for it comp.compilers.lcc

Michael Abbott aka frEk <20014670 AT snetch DOT cpg DOT com DOT au> wrote in message
news:38571CDD DOT E6514FF3 AT snetch DOT cpg DOT com DOT au...
> Heya all
>
> I know that this is horribly off topic but this is the first place I
> thought I'd ask :)
>
> I've been learning lexical analysis / grammar parsing lately and have
> decided to start building a small C compiler for test purposes... I've
> been looking around for papers on compiler design (steering away from
> the actual parsing languages, etc.) or any simple source (without
> optimisations, etc.) that I could possibly have a look at...
>
> GCC is great and I've been looking through the source to figure out
> where to begin (tho' it's too hefty for me at the moment) and since some
> of the people on this list would have a good idea of the internals of
> compilers, where would I find anything on compiler design? Any simple
> compilers (it doesn't necessarily have to be C/++ at the moment) or
> papers / documents or anything? Or maybe just a pointer to a useful
> newsgroup, etc.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated,
> Michael
>