This is an educational language to learn more about language design, compilers, linkers and assemblers. The goal of the project is to have a language that can compile itself to a binary format.
Explicit non-goal: be 100% compliant with architectures.
This is an educational project. As such, shortcuts will be taken. I'll try to be explicit in supported and non-supported features.
The target for the language is for now a subset of C. Changes will happen later to diverge a little (for example references instead of pointers etc...) to experiment.
The compiler is currently bootstraped with python code and is split in 2:
- The frontend that takes Anbaz and emits Bril (in progress).
- The backend that takes a Bril output and emits assembly (currently targetting marm64 and maybe x64 later) (in progress).
The assembler takes assembly and transpiles to machine code (TODO).
The linker that links and produces an executable (TODO).
Right now the project relies on as and ld to assemble and link on macos.
to compile, run > ./compile.sh <file> which will create a build/ directory with all the generated artifacts (assembly file, object file and resulting binary).
You can also run the tests with > run_tests.sh