Compiler for the Dana Programming Language

Main features of Dana

• Simple Python-like structure

• Supports integers and bytes, as well as arrays

• Pass by value or by reference

• Low level programming

• Pascal-like scope of variables and nested functions

• Static type safety

• Library of functions

Technology used

• Flex/Bison for the AST (in C)
• LLVM for the IR code

Dependencies (on Ubuntu 18.04.4 64-bit)

• flex
• bison
• cmake 3.12 (at least)
• llvm-3.9
• clang-3.9
• lib32z1-dev

Build

cd llvm
mkdir cmake-build-debug
cd cmake-build-debug
cmake ..
make

Run

cd llvm
./dana [-indent] [-Olevel] [-i] [-f] inputfile

-indent   Offside rule trigger
-Olevel   O[0-3] optimisation flag
-i        Output LLVM code
-f        Output assembly code

For the compiler class of NTUA

Authors

Makaris Nikolaos - 03113108

Mavrogeorgis Nikolaos - 03113087