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Dr Strangehack, or: how to write a self-hosting C compiler in 10 hours
do you think there should be tests that test for IF statement? i saw the example only contains while statements but no IF statement.
also, awesome project! :D
The selftest test case passes just fine. However, when trying to compile cc.c using the ccself
binary, it fails with the following errors.
u@x220 ~/D/c/c/mini-c> make selftest
gcc -m32 -std=gnu11 -Werror -Wall cc.c -o cc
./cc cc.c
gcc -m32 a.s -o ccself
./ccself tests/triangular.c
gcc -m32 a.s -o triangular; ./triangular 5; [ $? -eq 15 ]
u@x220 ~/D/c/c/mini-c> ./ccself cc.c
cc.c:719: error: expected ')', found '�'
cc.c:719: error: expected ';', found '�'
cc.c:719: error: expected '}', found '�'
Note, compiling cc.c with the produced cc
binary works just fine, and compiling triangular.c with ccself
also works just fine.
Is ccself
intended to be able to compile cc.c?
OS: win10
Version: latest win branch (023992f on Jul 2 2015)
Example: By first assigning a = 9 and b = -2 and then computing a + a*b, the compiler wrongly gives -36, indicating it actually did (a+a)*b.
main.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv){
int i=0;
while(i<1000000){
printf("\r%i",i);
fflush(stdout);
i=i+1;
}
printf("\n");
return 0;
}
Compiling:
mcc ./main.c
Errors:
mcc ./main.c
./main.c:7: error: no symbol 'fflush' declared
./main.c:7: error: no symbol 'stdout' declared
There is some equivalence to do this?
Anybody who knows C can use your mini-c
as the minimal self-hosting subset of C compiler and can implement the whole C compiler or other languages.
What would also be interesting is to bootstrap mini-c
from scratch. Currently you require some kind of a C compiler like gcc
to be present on the system.
Here is an example of an approach that doesn't require any compiler at all, it starts from a small hand written machine code and then it goes from there to develop a structured programming language called BCC: http://rano.org/bcompiler.html (I made a mirror at github here: https://github.com/certik/bcompiler/blob/master/bcc.bc)
So the goal would be to write a compiler in BCC that can compile mini-c
.
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