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- Category: Computer
- Author: William M. Waite and Gerhard Goos
- Pages: 447 pages,
- File type: PDF (372 pages, 1.9 MB))
Read and download free eBook intituled Compiler Construction in format PDF (372 pages, 1.9 MB)) – 447 pages, created by William M. Waite and Gerhard Goos.
This is a modern text written by two leaders in the field, demonstrates how a compiler is built.
Compilers and operating systems constitute the basic interfaces between a programmer and the machine for which he is developing software. In this book we are concerned with the construction of the former. Our intent is to provide the reader with a firm theoretical basis for compiler construction and sound engineering principles for selecting alternate methods, imple menting them, and integrating them into a reliable, economically viable product.
The emphasis is upon a clean decomposition employing modules that can be re-used for many compilers, separation of concerns to facilitate team programming, and flexibility to accommodate hardware and system constraints. A reader should be able to understand the questions he must ask when designing a compiler for language X on machine Y, what tradeoffs are possible, and what performance might be obtained. He should not feel that any part of the design rests on whim; each decision must be based upon specific, identifiable characteristics of the source and target languages or upon design goals of the compiler.
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