What does backpatching mean ? Please illustrate with a simple example.

I'm building ubuntu-8.04 with gcc 3.4 and I need to generate the .i files, which are the output of the gcc preprocessor. I have tried adding the --save-temps flag but this only generates the .i fil...

I have tried the LLVM demo from Try out LLVM and Clang in your browser!. What kind of IR is this? HIR, MIR, or LIR? The SSA representation is usually used in MIR, I think. So, is it an MIR? But it ...

Compilers often choose intermediate representations (IRs) that are either stack-based or infinite register. What are the advantages of these over expression trees?

A tool I'm working on needs to take the intermediate format generated by the compiler, add some code to it and then give that modified intermediate code to the backend of the compiler to generate t...

I am currently playing around with programming languages. I have spent some time writing parsers and interpreters in high level languages (most notably Haxe). I have had some results, that I think...

I'm taking a compiler-design class where we have to implement our own compiler (using flex and bison). I have had experience in parsing (writing EBNF's and recursive-descent parsers), but this is m...