Practical Compiler Construction With Java and the JVM

by Jan Pedersen

In an effort to make a complex topic more understandable, Practical Compiler Writing with Java and the JVM takes the reader through the fundamentals of compiler construction. Topics range from the theoretical foundations of various concepts to their actual implementation using Java and the JVM. The books starts with a recap of automata theory necessary to understand the algorithms used for generating tokenizers and parsers. It discusses the expected set of LL and LR parsers, and also presents a number of lesser known parsing techniques. In later chapters, scoping and type checking as well as other semantic checks are discussed, including a theoretical framework for type requirements that is straightforward implementable. The extensive chapter on code generation introduces the Java Bytecode language in great detail, and presents code generation approaches for most Java language constructs.

734 pages, Paperback

Published November 17, 2019

Reviews

[Kelvin · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most amazing books I have ever read. Without this I would never have gotten my PHD