Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 12:37:18 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: New videos are online :) part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YAUfd41URA part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGLgiPhwskM please give me feedback in this thread I have watched the videos in speed 2 (double speed) and they look pretty good, thanks.
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On 12/7/14 11:13 AM, Stefan Koch wrote: Hello, I'd like to announce that I am going to be writing a C-compiler in D. Without flex or bison or anything like that. Just pure handwritten D. I will shoot videos of my progress, and I will explain how a compiler really works. If you think that is like HandmadeHero you are right! Caseys videos inspired my to do this. I hope that some of you will be watching this. Please tell me what you think if that announcement, and feel free to ask anything you like. Regards Stefan (Uplink_Coder). Sounds like a really interesting idea. -- Andrei
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
New videos are comeing soon :) Topics : Intro to compilers Parseing and the AsT Identifier-resolution and scope
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Tuesday, 16 December 2014 at 10:01:58 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: please tell me what concepts you would like to have explained. perhaps I should do a live-stream for QA maybe ? I don't know. Maybe QA could be helpful - not sure if a live stream is necessary ...
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 12:37:18 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: New videos are online :) part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YAUfd41URA part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGLgiPhwskM please give me feedback in this thread Hi. I'm an intermediate level programmer and I'm interested in learning about compilers, so I was very exited when I red your post, and I hope you'll continue. A few suggestions I have: 1. maybe you should pick your target audience, and only talk to that audience. I don't think you need to explain while loops to people who want to learn compilers and you can't teach compilers to people who don't get while loops. 2. talk more about concepts and decision making instead of source - we can follow the source, but there is no obvious answer to why. So, for example, you go through the source for the lexer, but maybe you should talk instead about the lexer concept- What is it, How will it work, What's the input and output?! 3. it was already mentioned, but it's worth stressing: you should script your recordings. 4. There are a few easy tricks to achieve good quality audio with standard microphones. Maybe if you script your video, and provide the script , the audio will not matter that much. 5. remove the long pauses. we can pause the video if we need more time to process. So, I'm waiting for the next videos, thank you
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
please tell me what concepts you would like to have explained. perhaps I should do a live-stream for QA maybe ?
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
New videos are online :) part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YAUfd41URA part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGLgiPhwskM please give me feedback in this thread
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On 09/12/14 02:45, deadalnix wrote: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 15:44:55 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: I want to do a C backend first. Building an LLVM Backand out of that is a small step. There is already a very popular C to C compiler out there. It is called cat, and come out of the box with any UNIX like system. I know it was meant as a joke, but I couldn't resist nitpicking. When Stroustrup started out with an OO successor to C, he wrote a preprocessor that would convert his new syntax to C, to be passed to a C compiler. When the language started to evolve, that proved insufficient, and he wrote CFront, a C++ to C compiler. He defines the difference between a preprocessor and a compiler along these lines: With a compiler, any and all compilation errors need to be caught by the front end. If the front end accepted your program, and the back end fails to compile it, it is, by definition, a compiler bug. As such, cat (nor its close neighbor, tac | tac), are not a compiler, since it does not catch compilation errors. Sorry for the nitpick. Shachar
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at 17:19:28 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at 13:02:43 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote: I will use a handwritten recursive decent parser. Since that is what I deem the easiest thing to do. Take a look at the std.lexer proposal first. Thanks for your suggestion. In fact, I know and like std.lexer. But this is an educational project to showcase compiler construction. So everything will be written from scratch. I didn't want to suggest to use std.lexer, but to showcase the nice compile time tricks it employs, e.g. the generation of a Trie at compile time.
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On 2014-12-09 11:15:19 +, eles said: On Tuesday, 9 December 2014 at 10:54:22 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2014-12-09 00:45:41 +, deadalnix said: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 15:44:55 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: Any link? I tried to google it but it's such a generic word etc. no luck. http://linux.die.net/man/1/cat It was a joke. Could also say notepad on Windows. :-) At least one you catched... I was wondering... but you know, there are so many strange names etc. used... who knows. Better to check. -- Robert M. Münch http://www.saphirion.com smarter | better | faster
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Thursday, 11 December 2014 at 15:02:02 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote: I didn't want to suggest to use std.lexer, but to showcase the nice compile time tricks it employs, e.g. the generation of a Trie at compile time. std.lexer is awesome, no doubt about it! But it is not in the scope of building a dead simple compiler. I am still about a way to simplify parsing. It is still not dead simple :(
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
I will start uploading official videos at Monday. If you are interested in qcc please join me in irc. server : irc.freenode.net channel : #qcc
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
I will use a handwritten recursive decent parser. Since that is what I deem the easiest thing to do. Take a look at the std.lexer proposal first.
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at 13:02:43 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote: I will use a handwritten recursive decent parser. Since that is what I deem the easiest thing to do. Take a look at the std.lexer proposal first. Thanks for your suggestion. In fact, I know and like std.lexer. But this is an educational project to showcase compiler construction. So everything will be written from scratch.
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On 9 Dec 2014 07:00, Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 21:04:17 UTC, John wrote: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 19:35:54 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: think of them as beta quality! You may have to either pause when you need to cough and sneeze or just edit that out. I am interested in this topic but the horrible quality of audio video made me puke. Sorry. I will shoot the next videos when I am healthy again. I thought about writing the code beforehand, and then just go through and explain it. What do you think of that ? @ibuclaw You did not misshear, I really said that :( . I was referring I to the fact, that I do not parse uppercase letters atm. Probably should edit out such non-sense. Yah, my next question would have been: How do you intend to have a self hosted C compiler handwritten in pure D? :)
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On 9 Dec 2014 00:50, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 15:44:55 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: I want to do a C backend first. Building an LLVM Backand out of that is a small step. There is already a very popular C to C compiler out there. It is called cat, and come out of the box with any UNIX like system. Just so happens to be compatible for D to D compilation too. This tool is awesome!¿?¡
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Tuesday, 9 December 2014 at 08:10:14 UTC, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 9 Dec 2014 00:50, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 15:44:55 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: I want to do a C backend first. Building an LLVM Backand out of that is a small step. There is already a very popular C to C compiler out there. It is called cat, and come out of the box with any UNIX like system. Just so happens to be compatible for D to D compilation too. This tool is awesome!¿?¡ cat is the fastest transcompiler I have ever seen!
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On 2014-12-09 00:45:41 +, deadalnix said: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 15:44:55 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: I want to do a C backend first. Building an LLVM Backand out of that is a small step. There is already a very popular C to C compiler out there. It is called cat, and come out of the box with any UNIX like system. Any link? I tried to google it but it's such a generic word etc. no luck. -- Robert M. Münch http://www.saphirion.com smarter | better | faster
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On 2014-12-07 19:13:41 +, Stefan Koch said: I'd like to announce that I am going to be writing a C-compiler in D. Without flex or bison or anything like that. Just pure handwritten D. Hi, how about using PEG for parsing etc.? IMO that would be a very good showcase for the power of PEG And D. -- Robert M. Münch http://www.saphirion.com smarter | better | faster
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Tuesday, 9 December 2014 at 10:54:22 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2014-12-09 00:45:41 +, deadalnix said: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 15:44:55 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: Any link? I tried to google it but it's such a generic word etc. no luck. http://linux.die.net/man/1/cat It was a joke. Could also say notepad on Windows.
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Tuesday, 9 December 2014 at 10:55:24 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2014-12-07 19:13:41 +, Stefan Koch said: I'd like to announce that I am going to be writing a C-compiler in D. Without flex or bison or anything like that. Just pure handwritten D. Hi, how about using PEG for parsing etc.? IMO that would be a very good showcase for the power of PEG And D. -- Robert M. Münch http://www.saphirion.com smarter | better | faster I will use a handwritten recursive decent parser. Since that is what I deem the easiest thing to do.
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Tuesday, 9 December 2014 at 10:54:22 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2014-12-09 00:45:41 +, deadalnix said: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 15:44:55 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: I want to do a C backend first. Building an LLVM Backand out of that is a small step. There is already a very popular C to C compiler out there. It is called cat, and come out of the box with any UNIX like system. Any link? I tried to google it but it's such a generic word etc. no luck. -- Robert M. Münch http://www.saphirion.com smarter | better | faster That was a joke. http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?cat
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Sunday, 7 December 2014 at 19:13:42 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: I'd like to announce that I am going to be writing a C-compiler in D. I will shoot videos of my progress, and I will explain how a compiler really works. I would be very interested in the videos, can't wait. :)
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Monday, December 8, 2014, Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Please tell me what you think if that announcement, and feel free to ask anything you Please do post updates here. I think it would be a great show-casing of D's capabilities. Just a suggestion and I may be totally off mark here, but will you have it directly output machine code? Or just the front end? I keep hearing praises of LLVM back-end so if your compiler outputs the LLVM IR code then maybe you can have the rest of the benefit from LLVM. But of course, if this is a PoC that D Caen be used to write a full compiler to output machine code then LLVM's off... -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
First two videos are up think of them as beta quality! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeBSsuCCRFo and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crQk929crCE
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 16:28:24 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: First two videos are up think of them as beta quality! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeBSsuCCRFo and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crQk929crCE The quality is completely shot for both audio and video. The text is very fuzzy even in 720p and the audio has been subject to some extreme lossy compression.
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 17:26:59 UTC, John Colvin wrote: ...The text is very fuzzy even in 720p and the audio has been subject to some extreme lossy compression. I don't know... in 720p I can't complain about the text but on the otherwise in 480 is really a bit fuzzy. Well as a suggestion I think you could expand the window where you are writing the code. Or even focus entire on it. I'm waiting for more videos. :) Matheus.
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 17:26:59 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 16:28:24 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: First two videos are up think of them as beta quality! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeBSsuCCRFo and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crQk929crCE The quality is completely shot for both audio and video. The text is very fuzzy even in 720p and the audio has been subject to some extreme lossy compression. The audio-input is very bad! what you are hearing are not compression artifacts it's the noise filter hard at work.
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 19:35:54 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 17:26:59 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 16:28:24 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: First two videos are up think of them as beta quality! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeBSsuCCRFo and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crQk929crCE The quality is completely shot for both audio and video. The text is very fuzzy even in 720p and the audio has been subject to some extreme lossy compression. The audio-input is very bad! what you are hearing are not compression artifacts it's the noise filter hard at work. You may have to either pause when you need to cough and sneeze or just edit that out. I am interested in this topic but the horrible quality of audio video made me puke.
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On 8 December 2014 at 19:35, Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 17:26:59 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 16:28:24 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: First two videos are up think of them as beta quality! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeBSsuCCRFo and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crQk929crCE The quality is completely shot for both audio and video. The text is very fuzzy even in 720p and the audio has been subject to some extreme lossy compression. The audio-input is very bad! what you are hearing are not compression artifacts it's the noise filter hard at work. Yah, talking ad-lib is not fun, nor an easy thing to do. 1) Script your presentation, making notes of the time it will take for you to talk through each section. 2) Screencast without audio, following the script to your timings. 3) Get yourself a Zoom H1, and record the audio over the video. It *is* the season to be sick and bunged in. But that's not a good excuse for spending 15 minutes sneezing and coughing your way through a pre-recorded talk. :-) By the way, on a more technical note, I was confused by some of your comments, such as not using camel casing and D's foreach because it makes self hosting difficult? Maybe I misheard, but it seems absurd to my ears, but then what do I know. :-) Iain.
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 15:44:55 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: I want to do a C backend first. Building an LLVM Backand out of that is a small step. There is already a very popular C to C compiler out there. It is called cat, and come out of the box with any UNIX like system.
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 21:04:17 UTC, John wrote: On Monday, 8 December 2014 at 19:35:54 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: think of them as beta quality! You may have to either pause when you need to cough and sneeze or just edit that out. I am interested in this topic but the horrible quality of audio video made me puke. Sorry. I will shoot the next videos when I am healthy again. I thought about writing the code beforehand, and then just go through and explain it. What do you think of that ? @ibuclaw You did not misshear, I really said that :( . I was referring I to the fact, that I do not parse uppercase letters atm. Probably should edit out such non-sense.
[OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
Hello, I'd like to announce that I am going to be writing a C-compiler in D. Without flex or bison or anything like that. Just pure handwritten D. I will shoot videos of my progress, and I will explain how a compiler really works. If you think that is like HandmadeHero you are right! Caseys videos inspired my to do this. I hope that some of you will be watching this. Please tell me what you think if that announcement, and feel free to ask anything you like. Regards Stefan (Uplink_Coder).
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Sunday, 7 December 2014 at 19:13:42 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: Please tell me what you think if that announcement, and feel free to ask anything you like. Nice and some useful links: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2latu2/c4_c_in_4_functions/ http://homepage.ntlworld.com/edmund.grimley-evans/cc500/ https://github.com/alexfru/SmallerC good luck, Matheus.
Re: [OT?] C compiler written form scratch in D
On Sunday, 7 December 2014 at 20:17:30 UTC, MattCoder wrote: On Sunday, 7 December 2014 at 19:13:42 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: Please tell me what you think if that announcement, and feel free to ask anything you like. Nice and some useful links: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2latu2/c4_c_in_4_functions/ http://homepage.ntlworld.com/edmund.grimley-evans/cc500/ https://github.com/alexfru/SmallerC good luck, Matheus. Thanks for thoose links! Intresting stuff.
