A compiler is a computer program (or set of programs) that transforms source code written in a programming language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language, often having a binary form known as object code). The most common reason for converting a source code is to ...

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Makefile and translating it to Cmake

My makefile looks like this and I translated it to cmake. ...
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Runtime compiler performance

I've been playing about with runtime compilation to allow me to get/set runtime property values in C# and so far I have come up with a class. This allows me to write code like the following which ...
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Compiler for grond, a language-in-the-making

I'm working on a language called grond (see it on GitHub); the compiler is so small it is included in this post. My gut tells me that this code is awful, but it works. I am hesitant to change things ...
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Cyther: The Cross Platform Cython/Python Compiler (Take 2)

I recently posted an earlier version of this code on Code Review, and now with the given suggestions and many other improvements, I am back. I included the description of exactly what Cyther is ...
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Cyther: The Cross Platform Cython/Python Compiler

The newer version of this question is located here: Cyther: The Cross Platform Cython/Python Compiler (Take 2) I am currently writing a Python library (soon to be published)that automatically ...
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Compiler for a minimal LISP dialect to run on the Java Virtual Machine

As the title states, this is a compiler written in C with a ruby build script that translates a minimal LISP dialect and spits out an executable jar file. I designed this LISP dialect and named it ...
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Lexer for C# source code

This code reads a .cs source file in the \bin folder and parses the C# code in it. The program outputs keywords, identifiers, separators and numerical constants. How could it be improved? ...
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Brainf*ck to NASM converter written in C

I have made a very simple Brainfuck to NASM converter, that is usable for practically all programs. It has one trivial optimisation (to subsitute ADD for ...
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Build script for an operating system written in C++

I recently started following the James M Kernel Dev tutorials and was able to create an operating system in C++. Here is the source on GitHub. I have a couple of questions: Is my coding style ok? ...
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Pseudoportable C script pattern - follow-up

See the initial/previous iteration. I have rewritten the script following the answer of @200_success. Now it looks like this: ...
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Pseudoportable C script pattern

(See the next iteration.) From time to time, while working with a command line in *nix family of operating systems, we have to write those scripts doing a rather specific task. Usually we use ...
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BF#: Round 2 (Fight!)

So I've completely changed how BrainfuckSharp does things, and added some features. This is obviously a follow up to: Interpreting Brainfuck code to C#, then compiling to a .exe It now features an <...
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Brainfuck to Java converter

Similar to the previous post Brainfuck Interpreter: Slower than a Snail?, it runs BF in java. The only difference is that the converter will convert the BF code into a compilable and fairly readable ...
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Interpreting Brainfuck code to C#, then compiling to a .exe

This is a C# programme to convert Brainfuck to C#, then convert that C# to a .exe. So basically, it's a Brainfuck to Windows exe file converter/compiler. This requires any of: .NET 2.0 in C:\...
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Nothing compiler/interpreter, Part 2

Part 1 I've followed some of the suggestions: Adding newlines to error messages Implementing options (I decided to use boost instead of getopt) Using strerror for fstream failure Allow multiple ...
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Fastest possible text template for repeated use?

While reviewing Sending templatized e-mail to a million contacts, I wrote this implementation to illustrate an alternate approach. It is designed to be the fastest possible way to generate templated ...
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Abstract syntax tree for simple Lisp-like interpreter

A week or so ago, I wrote a binary expression calculator with the hope of better understanding how interpreters and compilers work. In the same vein, I've tried to write a lisp like language ...
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+, -, *, /, () expression calculator

In an effort to understand how compilers work, I wrote a simple expression calculator in C#. A CalculatorExpression takes an infix string, converts the infix string ...
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A BrainF*ck-ish compiler in C

-ish because I removed the input functionality from the compiler. And, the compiler does not support nested loops I've been recently reading up on compilers and how they work. Although this doesn't ...
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Simple flex-based lexer

I am trying to learn flex and have created this simple program. The rule for comments works correctly for single line comments such as: // this is a comment and ...
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JavaCC Android port User Interface (Activity) class

I have been working on a port of JavaCC for Android. It is mainly an interface. I needed only to modify the original source to redirect output to a TextView. The point of this project is to rekindle ...
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C++ makefile for CPLEX with environment loading

CPLEX is a solver for mathematical problems made by IBM, and it offers callable C libraries. My usual project configuration is a main.cpp file will all the important code and a simple cpxmacro.h file ...
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Reverse Polish Notation Compiler

Description A reverse polish notation based compiler. Very small subset of forth This is a proof of concept level compiler, no optimizations or over/underflow checking see the embedded POD for more ...
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Using a compiler specified on the command line or automatically detected

Here is part of my build system. ...