Writing a C Compiler (2017)

Yet another “compiling” course that puts all the emphasis on parsing.<p>Rule of thumb: parsing&#x2F;lexing shouldn’t takes more than 10% of your compiler course.

Book version to be released in October &#x27;23 : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nostarch.com&#x2F;writing-c-compiler" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nostarch.com&#x2F;writing-c-compiler</a>

Has anyone worked through this? Is it a good (soon to be) book?

IMHO writing a compiler for a high-level language, in an even higher level language, somehow feels a bit &quot;anachronistic&quot; (for lack of better word).

Here is how to write a C compiler in Python that correctly compile the vast majority of C programs per the ISO C standard:<p><pre><code> print(“You have some form of undefined behavior, which means printing this is a valid response per the C standard”)</code></pre>