llafuente/language-spec

Language

Specification:

General

Scope

Normative references

Glossary

Conformance

Compiler

Compilation phases

• Lexical Analysis
• Syntax Analysis
• Semantic Analysis
• Code generation

The source file

• Structure (order)
• Character sets
• Trigraph sequences
• Multibyte characters

Project structure

Configuration

• #get
• #set
• #require

Language

Keywords

Type system

• Primitives

  • Numeric arithmetic
  • Pointers
  • Structured
  • Enumerated
  • Interface

• Extended

  • Array
  • Strings

Identifiers

Literals

Variables

Functions

Statements and blocks

Control flow

Expressions

Introspection

Preprocessor and metaprogramming

Memory management

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To build a toy compiler you can read:

• Compilation process details
• Minimal code generator

Those documents define the compilation process and minimal code generation needed.