This project is yet another toy compiler project.
For the front end I am writing a Lexer, Parser, and intemediate code generator in C.
The backend will also be written in C. My code generator will generate x86_64 assembly. For now I will be using the GNU Assembler to generate machine code. Who knows, I may get around to writing an assembler myself.
Example of the lexer so far:
> cat helloWorld.hl
message = "hello, world!";
print message;
>
> ./hi helloWorld.hl
<TOK_IDENT, message>
<TOK_EQUALS>
<TOK_STRING, "hello, world!">
<TOK_SEMI>
<TOK_KEYWORD, print>
<TOK_IDENT, message>
<TOK_SEMI>
<TOK_EOF>
>Example of catching a lexical error:
> cat broken.hl
message = "hello, world!";
print %&*£^"" <- these chacters do not match any token;
>
> ./hi broken.hl ~/dev/hlang(master✗)@harry
<TOK_IDENT, message>
<TOK_EQUALS>
<TOK_STRING, "hello, world!">
<TOK_SEMI>
<TOK_KEYWORD, print>
Unexpected symbol "%" at (2:7)