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Yet Another Compiler Compiler, a tool for making compilers or interpreters.

That's how Fortran does their titles and stuff.

So what was the structure of FORTRAN one?

Now FORTRAN ran from 1954 To 1957, And interestingly, they thought it would only take them one year to build the compiler but it would end up taking three.

So there were a number of so called compiler compilers, tools that would allow you to write your own compiler, and one of the most famous was known as Yet Another Compiler Compiler, or YACC.

It might actually break the C compiler.

Which we'll label with a big C, for the compiler, And the compiler takes as input just your program.

It's running the C compiler at the moment.

Recall that a compiler has five major phases,

Virtual Machine with JIT CPU compiler for max speed

Assume the C compiler uses GNU ld default no .

The law of compiler writer employability. gt gt Exactly.

Why should I bother with FORTRAN? Why not write it all in assembly language?

Here's a quiz. I invoke the GNU compiler, and it crashes.

Internal warning by the compiler shouldn't be used by user written modules.

Now a compiler is structured differently. So, we can draw a picture here.

If I write this program in FORTRAN, ultimately it gets interpreted in assembly language and machine code.

Well, if you write import compiler internal, this means you're going to write some compiler code, and compiler code is more error prone than user interface code, in particular because if you worked with a user interface, most errors you make will be immediately visible to the human eye.

In C C , the compiler option DNDEBUG for no debugging also turns assertions off.

When such a program is then compiled down into machine code, you'll see even greater variance depending on the exact processor, the compiler, the compiler optimizations, the programming implementation, and so on.

So 50 percent of programs were in FORTRAN, And, that is very rapid adoption of a new technology.

FORTRAN one was the first successful high level language and it had a huge impact on computer science.

They told me computers could only do arithmetic. Grace Hopper and you have this quote when she talked about writing compiler, and a compiler is a program that produces other programs, like Python.

But it was a very successful project. By 1958, over 50 percent of all code was written in FORTRAN.

And, in fact, its influence was so profound, that today, auto compilers still preserve the outlines of FORTRAN one.

And so in this structure the compiler is offline, Meaning that we pre process the program first.

That means that there are certain compiler error messages that will not save you from silly mistakes.

The problem is, we don't know the machine language of proteins or have a compiler for proteins.

But now for the extra question, which of these is actual cause for the GNU compiler crashing?

The difference between a compiler and an interpreter like Python is the compiler does all the work at once and then runs the new program whereas with an interpreter like Python you're doing this work at the same time.

Again, that should not have been too hard. The answer is, of course, a bug in the compiler.

And the impact of FORTRAN was not just on computer science research, of course, but also on the development of, practical compilers.

Whereas if you deal with compiler internals, it's a long path from a bug in the compiler to a bug in the actual compiled program, which then, again, has to be executed in order to have the bug cause a failure.

You may also want to add this line setenv OPTIM O2 If you want the compiler to do some optimization.

All of these are reasons why this domain, namely the compiler, is way more error prone than the user interface.

Welcome back, in this second half of the lecture we'll continue with our overview of the structure of a compiler.

Is it me because no me, no invocation, no crash or is it Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU project because without Stallman no GNU compiler no crash or is it oxygen, without oxygen, no Richard Stallman, no me, no compiler, no crash, probably also no world as we know it, no computers, no electricity, interesting, or finally is it a bug in the compiler because no bug no crash.

If the domain is complex in itself, such as JavaScript or in eclipse the compiler, this will lead to more bugs.

English. The first step at understanding a program, both for a compiler and for a human, is to understand the words.

I had that happened on a number of occasions where your compiling totally breaks your C compiler in the process of that.