introduction to code generation

introduction to code generation introduction to code generation what is code generation? the first part of a compiler analyzes the source code into a structure that carries the meaning of the program; this structure is generally the abstract syntax tree that’s been checked and decorated. (remember decorated means all identifier references have been resolved.) from this structure we can generate the corresponding code in some other language, the target language. this is what a code generator does. what is code generation? some compilers generate twice: they first generate code in some “intermediate language” like sil, llvm ir, hir, mir, cil, etc. then they do the “real” code generation into a target language that is directly runnable (or really close to …

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