Go with an existing educational language instead, and focus on learning about compilers. The following two are specifically designed for classroom use in compiler courses and by extension …

Feb 26, 2012 · The majority of modern high-performance language implementations combine both an interpreter and a compiler (or even several compilers) for maximum performance. Actually, …

I've seen several compiler bugs, reported a few myself (specifically, in F#). That said, I think compiler bugs are rare because people who write compilers are generally very comfortable …

That way, the compiler sees only your code, plus those definitions; it never gets a look at the code (implementation) for the other bits. Note: The Compiler doesn't care that it doesn't know about …

Jul 1, 2014 · The compiler has been written by total experts in the language. If they are reporting that something is a bit wiffy (think code smell) then the code should be reviewed. It is entirely …

Jan 25, 2021 · A compiler operates at a logical level, not concerning itself with physical storage, but rather with groupings of 1's and 0's — several different kinds of groupings. The first …

There's a theoretical chance for this to happen. There is, however, a way of checking if a specific compiler (with available source code) has been compromised, through David A. Wheeler's …

Jun 12, 2015 · in the above, the compiler can choose to keep right on statically inlining, from InlineMe through whatever's inside act(), nor a need to touch any vtables at runtime. But any …

Jan 3, 2015 · The moral of the story is to write clean code and do not try to second-guess the compiler or add clever optimizations that are not needed, can break the software, and …

Jul 30, 2015 · So when the compiler reaches x + y, instead of running lots of code that branches for many different types of x and y, the compiler quickly checks if we have strings again, and …