Grab hold of your C++ ... because here you'll learn how to use it to write compilers and interpreters those programs that translate high-level computer babble into machine-executable code. The ONLY C++-based book on compilers and interpreters available, this revised and updated edition shows you the ABC's of reading and listing a program, breaking it into tokens, parsing it, and examining its syntax. Then it shows you how to build an actual interpreter and debugger, and, finally, a compiler!

Table of contents

Reading and Listing the Source Program
Scanning
The Symbol Table
Parsing Expressions
Parsing Statements
Parsing Declarations
Parsing Programs, Procedures and Functions
Interpreting Declared Procedures and Functions
Interpreting Control Statements and the Standard Procedures and Functions
An Interactive Source-Level Debugger
Machine Architecture and Assembly Code
Compiling Procedures, Functions, and Assignment Statements
Compiling Control Statements
Advanced Concepts: An Overview
Appendices.