thebes

my singlepass c compiler (for a WIP blog post) is at 462 lines and I only have room for one of these, which would be more interesting?

(it already supports ints, pointers, arrays, if / while / do / for, functions, typedefs with the ~lexer hack~, and a few other things! goal is < 500 lines)

#blog #compiler

floats
60%
strings
40%
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Jan 11, 2023 at 8:05amWeb
Show threadthebesJan 11, 2023
implications,,,
Show threadthebesJan 14, 2023
summing together the votes from birdsite and here, strings won 29 to 18 (out of 47 total votes). sorry mastodon! because i love you more i'll try to still add an addendum about how to add floats, as an exercise for the reader :-)
Show threadthebesJan 14, 2023

i've also finished implementing strings and the compiler ended up as *exactly* 500 lines 🙂

time to write a literate programming environment to explain this whole thing, hopefully it won't take 20k words...

Show threadJeff HykinSep 14, 2023

@vgel Just read the blog post and loved it! I've been thinking of writing a C compiler + linker in JavaScript (running C code, client-side in a web browser seems fun) but needed a good entry point.

I also like code golf so maybe I'll see what I can cram into that python implementation.