https://github.com/xixixao/malice

Down-to-assembly compiler written in MetaCoffee
https://github.com/xixixao/malice

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Down-to-assembly compiler written in MetaCoffee

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/xixixao/malice
• Owner: xixixao
• Created: 2014-01-04T11:44:54.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-01-04T11:51:01.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-14T20:47:48.449Z (2 months ago)
• Language: CoffeeScript
• Size: 1.01 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
This assignment is no longer used at Imperial, so I decided to publish our solution. It's a compiler for made up language called MAlice (see langspec/malice_milestone2_spec.md), which compiles given plaintext source code into x86 assembly. I wish we were allowed to compile down to LLVM, but this would prevent us to handroll some of the assembly optimizations (think register allocation).

This is an example of how [MetaCoffee](https://github.com/xixixao/meta-coffee/) and/or [CoffeeScript](http://coffeescript.org) can be used to write a full-blown down-to-assembly compiler.

# MAlice Milestone 2

## Overview

Main file is                           `src/main.coffee`,

parser (includes lexing) is defined in `src/parser.metacoffee`,

semantic analyser is defined in        `src/semantics.metacoffee`.

We are using the top-down parser generator tool called MetaCoffee

(https://github.com/xixixao/meta-coffee/ - I am still working on full

documentation) similar to PEG.js (https://github.com/dmajda/pegjs) for both

parsing of the input MAlice code and traversing the AST.

## File Structure

    Makefile

      - Invoke build by running `make`

    compile

      - Launch script, executes src/main.js with Node.js

    src/

      main.coffee

        - Main entry point of the compiler / CLI

      parser.metacoffee

        - Grammar definitions and AST generation

      semantics.metacoffee

        - Semantic analysis / error checking

      loadMetaCoffee.coffee

        - Initializes parser and semantics with MetaCoffee base

      colorConsole.coffee

        - Removes colors from console output if redirected

      errorprinter.coffee

        - Pretty printer for compile-time errors

    lib/

    node_modules/

    bin/

      - stores JavaScript files built by make