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Resources used during development

For most sources below, the first link is relative, the target of which is not present in the repository itself. The second link is provided and points to the original source used.

C, BCPL, B

C

• The Development of the C Language, Dennis Ritchie (link)
• The Rationale for C89 (link)
• The C89 standard (link)
• The C Programming language, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie (link)
• The C reference, cppreference.com (link)

BCPL, B

• The BCPL reference manual (link)
• The BCPL user guide (link)
• The B reference manual (link)
• A comparison between B, BCPL, and C (link)

POSIX

• POSIX (2008) (link)
• The manual page for the c17 utility, POSIX (link)

Compilation stages

Parsing

• Wikipedia on the lexer hack (link)
• Wikipedia on operator precedence parsing (link)
• Wikipedia on recursive descent parsing (link)

Compilation

• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (link)
• Introduction to Compilers and Language Design (link)
• Wikipedia on one-pass compilers (link)
• Wikipedia on threaded code (link)

Hardware

x86

• The System V ABI for x86 (link)

ARM

• The ARM glossary (link)
• The ARM software development guide (link)

Etc.

LLVM

• The LLVM language reference (link)
• The LLVM lexicon (link)
• The architecture of LLVM (link)
• The LLVM paper (link)
• The LLVM programmer's manual (link)
• On writing an LLVM backend (link)
• On garbage collection with LLVM (link)
• A Journey to Understand LLVM (link)
• A Gentle Introduction to the LLVM IR (link)
• LLVM, Wikipedia (link)

ChibiCC

• An introduction to C compiler creation (ChibiCC) (link)
• ChibiCC (Git) (link)

Rust

• On using Rust with Nix (link)

My notes

• On parsing C declarations
• Some ideas for features to add to C
• Random notes

Code

• PyCParser (Git) (link)
• Utilities for lexing C (link)

School 42

• The cc1 project, School 42 (link)