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cproc
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Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
Michaelforney has also built croc [1], a qbe based C compiler. Really impressive!
- List of (open source) C compilers
- Hand-optimizing the TCC code generator
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Minias – A mini x86-64 assembler for fun and learning
A word of warning for those wondering: this is not for Intel syntax, despite referencing the Intel doc.
Minias can assemble itself
...but it's written in C and uses a parser generator? IMHO it feels a bit backwards --- and perhaps even a bit cheating if you're doing this for a "bootstrap pilgrimage" --- to write a lower-level tool in a higher-level language. On the other hand, the same author also links to a C compiler in C, without a parser generator: https://github.com/michaelforney/cproc
- Cproc C Compiler
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Hacker News top posts: Aug 20, 2021
Cproc C Compiler\ (29 comments)
- A C11 compiler using QBE as a backend, released under the ISC license
qbe-rs
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Odin Programming Language
> I think it uses a different backend than LLVM
harec uses https://c9x.me/compile/
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Frontend for GCC?
Have you considered QBE?
- QBE – Compiler Back End
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What do C programmers think of the Zig language in 2023?
I really hope other new projects (like QBE) can really grow and become widely used
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Toy C compiler, worth having an IR stage?
I really liked targetting QBE (https://c9x.me/compile/) as an IR, as it gave me lots of back-end optimisations for free 😊.
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C or LLVM for a fast backend?
There is: QBE.
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A whirlwind tour of the LLVM optimizer
You might be underestimating the accuracy of the CPU models LLVM uses.
For x86, the same data the code generator uses drives llvm-mca[1], which given a loop body can tell you the throughput, latency, and microarchitectural bottlenecks (decoding, ports, dependencies, store forwarding, etc.)—if not always precisely, then still not worse then IACA, the tool written at Intel by people who presumably knew how the CPUs work, unlike LLVM contributors and the rest of us who can only guess and measure. This separately for Haswell, Sandy Bridge, Skylake, etc.; not “x86”.
Now, is this the best model you can get? Not exactly[2], but it’s close enough to not matter. Do we often need machine code to be optimized to that level of detail? Perhaps not[3], and with that in mind you can shave at least a factor of ten off LLVM’s considerable bulk at the cost of 20—30% of performance[4,5]. But if you do want those as well, it seems that the complexity of LLVM is a fair price, or has the right order of magnitude at least.
(Frontend not included, C++ frontend required to bootstrap sold separately, at a similar markup compared to a C-only frontend with somewhat worse ergonomics.)
[1] https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.html
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Made my first LLVM front-end… Now what?
You can try buildling you own backend like llvm. A good example or starting point is probably QBE since it is extremely small but very functional.
- Best book on writing an optimizing compiler (inlining, types, abstract interpretation)?
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Rust port of B3 from WebKit, LLVM-like backend
How big is the whole backend? I've heard that it is small but I wanted to compare it to QBE which is around 8 KLoC and it is quite interesting too.
What are some alternatives?
pl0c - Self-hosting PL/0 to C compiler to teach basic compiler construction from a practical, hands-on perspective.
ubpf - Userspace eBPF VM
minias - A mini x86-64 assembler for fun and learning.
minivm - A VM That is Dynamic and Fast
unix - Mirror of the Restoration of 1st Edition UNIX kernel sources from pdf document.
mir - A lightweight JIT compiler based on MIR (Medium Internal Representation) and C11 JIT compiler and interpreter based on MIR
manim - A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.
well - The Future of Assembly Language. https://wellang.github.io/well/
fpga_craft - A voxel game/Minecraft clone for the iCE40 UP5K FPGA
wasmtime - A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly
c4 - C in four functions