How to write a very basic compiler - Software Engineering Stack …
How can I write a basic compiler to convert a static text into a machine readable file? The next step will be introducing variables into the compiler; imagine that we want to write a compiler …
programming languages - How were the first compilers made?
The compiler for X is cross compiled from another architecture where there exists a compiler for X; this is how compilers for C are usually ported to other platforms. Also this is the method …
Is Ken Thompson's compiler hack still a threat?
Ken Thompson Hack (1984) Ken Thompson outlined a method for corrupting a compiler binary (and other compiled software, like a login script on a *nix system) in 1984. I was curious to …
How Does A Compiler Work? - Software Engineering Stack Exchange
A compiler is a computer program (or set of instructions) that transforms source code written in a programming language (the source language) into another computer language (the target …
The advantage of using __attribute__ ( (aligned ( )))
The aligned attribute forces the compiler to align that variable (your a array) to the specified alignment. The GCC documentation lists the attributes you can give, and you could even …
Writing programs without graphical IDE - Software Engineering …
A compiler just takes the files and compiles them into machine code or byte code. A compiler is usually used by an IDE by sending it a command to compile your files.
Why would a C executable be smaller when compared to C
I'm trying to understand why the output file sizes are significantly different when using a C and a C++ compiler. I was writing a small hello world program in C and C++, I noticed that in C …
compiler - GCC vs clang/LLVM -- pros and cons of each - Software ...
License for GCC runtime libraries adds another layer of restrictions while Clang compiler runtime (compiler-rt library) is under permissive MIT license. Summary: compile with Clang when you …
compiler - Does one have to write multiple "flavors" of C/C
1 Am I correct here, thinking that I can write the C/C++ code one time, and then simply compile it (probably using different compilers, or different compiler configs) multiple times, one time for …
c# - Is there a downside to using AggressiveInlining on simple ...
Trying to outsmart the compiler doesn't usually make a big difference, and has a lot of chances to backfire. For instance, inlining makes your program bigger as it duplicates the code …