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Writing a Memory Manager in a managed language?
The Jikes RVM, a metacircular java runtime, seems to have its Allocator/Collector written in Java (MMTK).
How does it work, then, when your garbage collector requires a garbage collector to run? From ...
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Resolving the types of functions in external modules
Suppose we have an imaginary statically typed programming language - let's call it SL. Each SL file corresponds to a module - SL's logical grouping of related functions into namespaces.
Calls to ...
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compiler design and eliminating left recursion
For example
E -> E+T | T
would be
E -> T E'
E' -> +T E' | null
If I have the production
B -> B == C | C
would these be the correct productions?
B -> C B'
B' -> ==C B' | ...
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The programming language interactions with operating systems
This is a Computer Science question about programming languages and operating systems.
My question is, what are the basic interactions between a programming language and operating systems? I do have ...
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Hypothetical - Support for Non-ASCII characters in non-string text
Say, for example, that in Java version 9, someone wanted to add support for the ≤ and ≥ characters as operands, which would work exactly like the <= and >= operands, respectively. Would this be ...
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TypeScript Implementation Language
I have been poking around at the TypeScript compiler and found this curious statement in the language spec:
TypeScript compiler is implemented in TypeScript
Is this even possible? I must believe ...
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Getting started with Program Analysis [closed]
I'm looking for resources on getting started with program analysis.
The only book I've found on the topic is the Nielson & Nielson book.
Other than that, it seems like there's only "compiler" ...
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Creating a Programming Language
I was wondering how professional programmers create their own programming languages.
Do they only create a compiler which reads a text file and makes an executable out of it (considering there are no ...
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1answer
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Pure name equivalence in type checking
I am reading Ravi Sethi's book about the programming language concepts, and there it says
int *i1;
int *i2;
After these declarations, the types of i1 and i2 are not name type compatible. In
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Is there any way to create a high level language interpreter implmented in hardware?
Some random thoughts caught me and I just cannot get it out. I am thinking since morden processors are just interpreters for different kinds of assembly languages, is there anyway to create some ...
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1answer
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Is there a programming language that is designed for compiling into (large) neural networks?
I thought about this a while ago, that maybe there should be (or is already) a programming language that actually compiles into a big neural network, that ideally, would scale very well for parallel ...
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Optimization with and without exceptions after compilation - would the results be the same?
Given a program , that uses exceptions for its functionality : if we'd run the program with optimization at one time , and after that we'd run it without optimization - would the outputs of the both ...
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LL1 grammar in compiling
I have a question about LL1 grammar. If we have grammar like this:
<S>::=<A>
<A>::=<A> car cat | epsilon
What is the First <A> can be? Is it just epsilon? And if its ...
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Parsing a C family language out of order
C is parsed strictly in order, i.e. everything has to be declared before it is used; in particular, types must be declared before variables of those types. This makes sense because the grammar would ...
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1answer
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Javascript library to parse other languages [closed]
Does anyone know where I can find a javascript library which could parse the syntax of other programming languages like php, c# e.t.c.
What I'm looking or in detail is some sort of browser text ...
