This repository contains my custom compiler for the C- language.
Notably, some parts of the language were intentionally omitted from the initial language description in the final stage. This includes for loops, static variables, and array initialization.
C- by default compiles for the Tiny virtual machine (binary can be created with make tm) which is essentially a very simple 32-bit processor. The behavior of the Tiny Machine (TM) is described in the docs folder.
However, you can also compile to LLVM using the -l flag (described below) to run on many different architectures.
Use the provided makefile to build the c- executable.
Then you may run it to produce output, for example:
./c- test.c-
This will produce a .tm output file with the Tiny assembly code, which can then be run with:
echo "gq" | ./tm test.tm
To use the c- executable, run ./c- [flags] [source].
Valid flags for c-:
- d: Turn on yydebug for parser debugging
- s: Turn on symbol table debugging
- p: Print the abstract syntax tree with types
- m: Print the abstract syntax tree with memory allocation information
- l: Generate code for LLVM instead of for Tiny Machine
- h: Help