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 …

Feb 26, 2012 · Just wondering (now that I've started with C++ which needs a compiler) why Python doesn't need a compiler? I just enter the code, save it as an exec, and run it. In C++ I …

Compiler designers are often extremely good programmers. Compilers are very important: most programming is done using compilers, so it's imperative the compiler is of high quality.

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 main point of header files is to give access to the definitions without having to rebuild unchanged code every time you compile. That's certainly what happens when you include …

Jul 1, 2014 · Many compilers have warning messages to warn the programmers about potential runtime, logic and performance errors, most times, you quickly fix them, but what about …

May 10, 2015 · This is easy to implement in a compiler, however I'm not sure how to implement this in an interpreter. The difference between an interpreter and a compiler, is that a compiler …

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 …

Jul 30, 2015 · My own explanation here that I began to write pales in comparison with the answer given in Understanding the differences: traditional interpreter, JIT compiler, JIT interpreter and …

May 1, 2018 · Compilation and interpretation are traits of a compiler or interpreter (duh!), not a language. Every language can be implemented by a compiler, and every language can be …