TLDR Web Dev · ARTICLES & TUTORIALS

WRITING A COMPILER IS SURPRISINGLY EASY (PART 1)

sebmestre.blogspot.com9 min read

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

This article discusses the process of writing a code generator for a systems programming language with a focus on translating a high-level language into x86-64 assembly code. It explains how to represent integer literals, variables, negation, and addition in the compiler and provides code examples for each.