Re: Dragonflame 0.3a is out!
Hi Ethin,
See my answers below.
You must know assembly language. For instance, you must know what a very simple program is in assembly language.
Incorrect. Assembly knowledge is not necessary, not for all compilation types. For bytecode compilers it is certainly not a requirement. For native code, it depends on whether you'd like to write a better compiler than industry standards, such as GCC on linux. If yes, I wish you good luck! If not, optimised assembly will work just as fine.
If you want to write a compiler, you must know what the following assembly source does
I see your -S switch works great when using GCC! I assure you, that you need a far better knowledge if you'd like to write a native compiler in pure assembly. GCC output can be quite unoptimised, see the debug symbols GCC just
included in your code.
You cannot convert source code to assembly language in lua.
Incorrect, again. See this page, which is a line-based Lua VM opcode assembler.
You must know another high level language like C, C++, fortran, go, objective C, objective C++ or ada. This is a definite requirement.
A very nice list of what GCC can compile indeed!, but there are other capable languages as well.
Maybe GNU bison would be another, better choice?
GNU bison is a parser generator, for parsable, mainly interpreted languages. It has nothing to do with machine code. Note, Bytecode does n ot equal machinecode!
You should study these things before even thinking about writing a compiler.
What makes you think that I haven't done so? Please do explain, because I am really interested how you managed to draw this conclusion.
While I appreciate your help, your tone really does not justify it - to me, it rather sounds like instructions from someone who has a bit of knowledge, which certainly would not be sufficient to create a compiler. And of course we know the saying: little knowledge is worse than having no knowledge.
Rob
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