20 Feb
2015
20 Feb
'15
2:41 p.m.
On 2015-02-20 23:32, Ali wrote:
While true, it is becoming less so, as most compilers today generate
some intermediate code, and then you have a backend which is shared with
many compilers, who is the part that actually deals with this.
And the people working on the backend is just a subset of the people
working on compilers.
And even worse, nowadays, it is becoming popular to have C as the
intermediate language, since you then already have a C compiler that can
generate the machine code... So some compiler people never go any deeper
than C...
Johnny
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I'm not at
all certain that such a skill is even marginally valuable
today. Who codes much in assembly, much less machine code? C has
firmly established itself in the once memory-constrained MCU world, so
not even there.
Excuse my ignorance but then how is a compiler written? I always thought
that you would need to know op codes and assembler to write a compiler. I.E.
you can't write and efficient compiler by using a high level language.