How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days
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#3Thought this was going to be an inspiration to me to continue with my pet project of writing my own little programming language. But it starts off on day 8 with him already having written a basic compiler, with no explanation of how he did any of the basics. Still interesting, just not what I thought it was.
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#4I was a little surprised that the author was able to manage both C11 and the preprocessor in that time. The preprocessor is hard. But there was existing code from a previous version of it, which makes sense. Still, a fantastic achievement! Congrats to the author!
Re: How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days
#5Thought this was going to be an inspiration to me to continue with my pet project of writing my own little programming language. But it starts off on day 8 with him already having written a basic compiler, with no explanation of how he did any of the basics. Still interesting, just not what I thought it was.
Luckily you can see the history on Git.
Re: How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days
#6Thought this was going to be an inspiration to me to continue with my pet project of writing my own little programming language. But it starts off on day 8 with him already having written a basic compiler, with no explanation of how he did any of the basics. Still interesting, just not what I thought it was.
Luckily you can see the history on Git.
Re: How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days
#7This is really interesting, and I was glad to see the author go beyond just the stated 40 days and give insight into where they went after it was 'self-hosting.'
Re: How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days
#8Thought this was going to be an inspiration to me to continue with my pet project of writing my own little programming language. But it starts off on day 8 with him already having written a basic compiler, with no explanation of how he did any of the basics. Still interesting, just not what I thought it was.
Same here. I have been trying the same project as you... and get stuck on the grammar, every.single.time.
Are you done with that part yet?
Re: How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days
#9Thought this was going to be an inspiration to me to continue with my pet project of writing my own little programming language. But it starts off on day 8 with him already having written a basic compiler, with no explanation of how he did any of the basics. Still interesting, just not what I thought it was.
I think the best inspiration to take here is that the best way to write a compiler in 40 days is to first write one in 400 days.
From the first entry:
> Implementing these features is easy because this is the second time for me.
Re: How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days
#10Interesting, and quite funny to read with a sense of humour that reminds me of the movie PI. The author of the compiler goes from rational to something more... spiritual.
"Day 52
I was looking for a mysterious bug for three days: ..."