compiler front end

**Bartc** · Nov 17 '08, 11:25 AM

Re: compiler front end

"vaib" <vaibhavpanghal @gmail.comwrote in message
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hi all ,
>
I am willing to write a compiler front-end for my semester
project .

>First of all,
I need to have a grammar so that I would know what all terminals
( tokens ) I have to use . This would be required for the design of
the lexer . Having the grammar would also solve many issues regarding
the parser too .
Can anyone suggest me a simple context-free grammar ? I'd
highly appreciate it .

Try posting to comp.compilers where someone might know what you're on about.

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Bartc

**Gene** · Nov 18 '08, 01:05 AM

Re: compiler front end

On Nov 17, 3:02 am, vaib <vaibhavpang... @gmail.comwrote :

hi all ,
>
I am willing to write a compiler front-end for my semester
project . I am studying compilers in my present semester and I am
following the Dragon Book for the theory and Allen I. Holub's Compiler
Design in C for the _actual stuff_ .
. Although I must admit that as of now I am not able to make out
much out of Holub's book since I am not through with the theory yet
but I have come to understand that it would be much easier to go
through it once I complete the theory . As of now I am almost done
with the front-end theory and so I want to design a compiler front-end
( lexer and parser ) .
Now there are certain issues that i am facing . First of all,
I need to have a grammar so that I would know what all terminals
( tokens ) I have to use . This would be required for the design of
the lexer . Having the grammar would also solve many issues regarding
the parser too .
Can anyone suggest me a simple context-free grammar ? I'd
highly appreciate it . I would also stick to this thread for any other
issues that I face while designing the front-end .
Thanking in anticipation .Vaib .

There is a small grammar that's nice for learning in the appendix of
this text:

Kenneth Louden's Compiler Construction Text

http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~louden/cmptext/

There is also one in Wirth's old book:

Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Structures-Prentice-Hall-Automatic-Computation/dp/0130224189

You will get more help at comp.compilers.

**vaib** · Nov 18 '08, 05:25 PM

Re: compiler front end

On Nov 18, 6:00 am, Gene <gene.ress...@g mail.comwrote:

On Nov 17, 3:02 am, vaib <vaibhavpang... @gmail.comwrote :
>
>
>

hi all ,

>

I am willing to write a compiler front-end for my semester
project . I am studying compilers in my present semester and I am
following the Dragon Book for the theory and Allen I. Holub's Compiler
Design in C for the _actual stuff_ .
. Although I must admit that as of now I am not able to make out
much out of Holub's book since I am not through with the theory yet
but I have come to understand that it would be much easier to go
through it once I complete the theory . As of now I am almost done
with the front-end theory and so I want to design a compiler front-end
( lexer and parser ) .
Now there are certain issues that i am facing . First of all,
I need to have a grammar so that I would know what all terminals
( tokens ) I have to use . This would be required for the design of
the lexer . Having the grammar would also solve many issues regarding
the parser too .
Can anyone suggest me a simple context-free grammar ? I'd
highly appreciate it . I would also stick to this thread for any other
issues that I face while designing the front-end .
Thanking in anticipation. Vaib .

>
There is a small grammar that's nice for learning in the appendix of
this text:http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~louden/cmptext/
>
There is also one in Wirth's old book:http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Str...ll-Automatic-C...
>
You will get more help at comp.compilers.

thank you for your reply . i'll try that out . and thank you Bartc

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