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A Compiler Writing Journey

16 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 11 stories, 5 comments · first 2019-12-23 · latest 2026-03-24

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    A Compiler Writing Journey
    story by ibobev · 2026-03-24 · 19 comments
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    Acwj: A Compiler Writing Journey
    story by pykello · 2025-10-26 · 0 comments
  3. …has written "A Compiler Writing Journey" based on PCC, which may shed a bit more light on the book: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/acwj
    comment by nils-m-holm · 2025-08-30 · in Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition
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    A Compiler Writing Journey
    story by japrozs · 2024-12-20 · 0 comments
  5. …bottom-up (but somewhat more advanced) compiler tutorial using C, maybe read this one instead: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/acwj
    comment by rep_lodsb · 2023-12-27 · in Let's Build a Compiler (1988)
  6. I currently study https://github.com/DoctorWkt/acwj which is quite interesting I have to admit. I'm interested in this topic, because I want to participate in TinyC compiler's development; I use it quite often to run C demos of mine and…
    comment by stefanos82 · 2023-03-25 · in Why take a compiler course? (2010)
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    story by davikr · 2022-11-29 · 12 comments
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    story by agomez314 · 2022-07-29 · 0 comments
  10. Correct. Try these two: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/acwj https://github.com/cfenollosa/os-tutorial
    comment by glouwbug · 2020-06-23 · in Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi
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    A Compiler Writing Journey
    story by ingve · 2020-01-08 · 0 comments
  12. I do not know, if you took time to look at the next function in https://github.com/DoctorWkt/acwj/tree/master/01_Scanner , but there is a Putback variable, which seems to imply that the scanner goes back (at most one character). Also…
    comment by fjfaase · 2020-01-08 · in C Compiler from Scratch
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    A Compiler Writing Journey: Documenting a self-compiling compiler for a C subset
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    C Compiler from Scratch
    story by harel · 2020-01-06 · 67 comments
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    A Compiler Writing Journey – Self-Compiling C Subset
    story by chubot · 2019-12-23 · 0 comments