Questions tagged [compiling]
Questions about teaching the concept of 'compiling' source code into an executable program.
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Ideas for exercise in parsing and compilers?
I teach basic compiler design and parsing to software engineering bachelor students (second year).
Usually, the kind of exercises we do in the labs are limited by the students' lack of previous ...
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How to teach hardware-software integration to new developers?
I'm having trouble succesfully teaching integration to trainee that are not from a computer science background.
Basically they have a training of 3 months around C/C++/Python/Software Testing/...
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Processing of arithmetic expressions, under both types of associativity [closed]
Request to vet the evaluation for given two grammars, handling
arithmetic expressions, having two precedence classes of operators:
addop= {+,-}, mulop = {*,/},
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C language tokenizer output for static integer array [closed]
Unable to find out how the C-language lexical analyzer would tokenize the declaration of a static array.
Say, int i[3]= {1,2,3};
The lexical analyzer would need to differentiate between just an ...
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Should an undergraduate course on Programming Languages precede or succeed the course on Compiler Construction?
I am an undergraduate CS student half way through my degree. I have started taking an online(Youtube) course on Programming Languages. The course contents include the following topics:
First-class ...
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Textbook recommendation for macros and assembler
I was going through GATE-CS questions, while solving I came across the following question here.
Write short answers to the following:
Which of the following macros can put a macro assembler into an ...
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Book to substitute "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools" by Ullman et. al. (popularly known as the red dragon book)
I am currently following the red dragon book:
But most of the time, I have difficulty understanding the kinds of stuff in the book. Though the content is fine, and I end up asking questions on cs....
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Is there any detailed video lecture series which uses “Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools” by Aho et al as the text book as a bible?
I am interested in learning Compiler Design , and from many resources I came to know that "The Dragon Book" is a good textbook. (Below are the two editions of the said textbook. [Red Dragon ...
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Principles of Compiler Design v/s Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools by Aho, Ullman
Now for a student who is trying to master the subject of "Compiler Design" which book should he/she follow (written by Aho, Ullman)?
1) Principles of Compiler Design By Aho Ullman (1977)
I ...
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The theory of parsing, translation, and compiling, v.s. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools?
Alfred V. Aho, Jeffrey D. Ullman have written
The theory of parsing, translation, and compiling. Volume 1 Parsing 1972 and Volume 2 Compiling 1973
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools 2ed ...
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Any good beginner tutorials for learning LLVM
I think the https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/index.html assumes you know too much. It's written in an unfamiliar language to me, OCaml, and they assume you know about lexers, parsers, AST. Any thorough ...
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(FOSS) Application to show/explain compilation?
I'm looking for an application that I can compile live, in class to show the students that compilation takes time, but brings speed benefits in the end, whereas interpreted languages always take time, ...
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