In my previous post on code generation we got our feet wet with compiling some basic expressions to p-code. In todays post I'm going to pick up where we left off and jump right in with control statements. In particular,
Symbol tables are a fundamental part of compilers. Depending on the compiler and the semantics of the language being compiled different symbol tables may be used for different phases of compilation, or one symbol table may be used through the entire co
Initially designed in the 1970's as a "portable assembly" language to facilitate implementing Pascal compilers on the varying computer architectures of the day, P-Code is the progenator of all modern bytecode interpreters. The success of the UCSD Pasca
Programs rarely exist in isolation. With a few exceptions, a program requires a supporting environment within which to run. For a compiled language, this can be handled by the operating system or in more extreme cases like micr
When comparing C and C++ to other popular programming languages like Java, C#, and python one of the big issues people bring up is that you "have to" manage dynamic memory manually. Aside from manual memory management not being nearly as big a deal as