Creating a C Compiler From Scratch Video Course!

$185.15

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Description

Learn to create your very own C compiler from scratch. In this course we develop a compiler that compiles a subset of the C Programming Language. By the time you finish all modules of this course you will be able to compile C programs that use pointers, structures, unions, arrays, functions, for loops, while loops. do while loops, if statements, switches and much more! This course includes all course modules!

Our compiler also has a preprocessor macro system allowing you to include header files and create definitions just like you would in any C file.

Your compiler is advanced enough to use the GCC standard library so we are able to call C functions from our compiler. Your compiler will be able to compile the C programming language.

This course does not rely on any frameworks we do everything from scratch to ensure the best possible learning experience for students

Module 1

In module 1 of this course we load our C source file that we wish to compile, into memory. We create a lexer to preform lexical analysis on the source input which will convert the source code into a bunch of tokens that our compiler can easily understand. We then pass the tokens through a parser to produce an abstract syntax tree. An AST describes the C program in a logical way that makes it easier for our compiler to understand. For example for the expression 50 + 20 you will end up with a root expression node that has a left operand that has a node of value 50 and a right operand that has a node of value 20. Breaking down problems in this way makes it much easier to create compilers.

Module 2

In module 2 of this course we create a code generator that produces 32 bit Intel assembly language that can then be passed through an assembler to produce a program binary that we can run. We also in this module create a resolver system which is responsible for taking a complicated expression such as "a->b.c.e[50] = 50" and breaking it down into simple steps and rules that our code generator can then easily follow. This abstraction is essential to ensure that the code generator does not become over complex. With the use of a resolver system we can ensure the code base remains clean.

Module 3

In module 3 of this course we create a preprocessor and macro system. This preprocessor system allows us to include header files in our C programs and also use a variety of macro keywords such as "#define" "#ifdef" , "sizeof" and many more.

Module 4

In module 4 we build a semantic validator which validates our C code. A semantic validator ensures that we are not setting variables that do not exist or accessing structures that arent there.

This is the only video course in the world that shows you how to create a C compiler, come and learn today!

Requirements

You must have a basic experience of assembly language.

Who This Course is For

People with an interest in compiler design

People who are interested in assembly language

People who are interested in the C Programming language

What You Will be Learn

How to build a C compiler from scratch

Full understanding of stackframes and how assembly language is generared for a C source file

Complete Understanding of lexical analysis and parsing

Stronger Assembly language skills will be gained

Compiler Design

Course Overview

2 Lessons

0H 13M

1. Introduction

4m 28s

2. Overview Of The Course

8m 44s

Installation and Setup

2 Lessons

0H 27M

3. Installation & Setup

1m 22s

4. Preparing our Project

26m 33s

Lexical Analysis

18 Lessons

2H 31M

5. What is Lexical Analysis

6m 51s

6. Creating Our Token Structures

6m 38s

7. Preparing Our Lexer

19m 8s

8. Creating a number token

27m 24s

9. Creating a string token

4m 46s

10. Creating a operator token

28m 6s

11. Creating a symbol token

4m 45s

12. Creating a identifier token

5m 10s

13. Creating a keyword token

5m 50s

14. Creating a new line token

1m 18s

15. Creating a comment token

7m 18s

16. Handling quotes in the Lexer

5m 35s

17. Implementing Hexadecimal Numbers

8m 50s

18. Implementing Binary Numbers

4m 8s

19. Dealing with the parentheses buffer

5m 52s

20. Creating tokens outside of the input file

5m 41s

21. Creating number types

3m 21s

22. Finalizing the lexer

51s

Building a parser

79 Lessons

11H 4M

23. What is parsing

5m 1s

24. Creating our parser structures

6m 5s

25. Writing our parser template

6m 4s

26. Creating our node file

7m 59s

27. Creating our first node

14m 19s

28. Creating an expression node

22m 2s

29. Dealing with precedence in expression - Part 1

12m 27s

30. Dealing with precedence in expression - Part 2

21m 19s

31. Dealing with precedence in expression - Part 3

2m 42s

32. Creating an identifier node

1m 44s

33. Implementing datatypes and keywords - Part 1

17m 23s

34. Implementing datatypes and keywords - Part 2

17m 59s

35. Implementing datatypes and keywords - Part 3

16m 56s

36. Implementing datatypes and keywords - Part 4

7m 55s

37. Understanding scopes

6m 41s

38. Implementing the scopes

21m 21s

39. Understanding Symbol Resolution

3m 18s

40. Implementing The Symbol Resolver

17m 37s

41. Implementing datatypes and keywords - Part 5

4m 43s

42. Implementing Variables - Part 1

16m 56s

43. Implementing Variables - Part 2

8m 46s

44. Implementing Variables - Part 3

21m

45. Understanding Array Declarations

3m 51s

46. Implementing the calculation of array sizes

5m 26s

47. Implementing Structures - Part 1

10m 34s

48. Implementing Structures - Part 2

1m 38s

49. Implementing Body's - Part 1

19m 28s

50. What is padding and alignment

4m 27s

51. Implementing datatype size functions

6m 51s

52. Implementing variable size functions

5m 16s

53. Implementing Alignment and Padding Functions

14m 1s

54. Implementing Body's - Part 2

12m 28s

55. Implementing Body's - Part 3

8m 25s

56. Scope offsets explained

11m 34s

57. Implementing parser scope entities and functionalities

4m 16s

58. Implementing the variable node scope offset - Part 1

16m 59s

59. Implementing the variable node scope offset - Part 2

2m 34s

60. Implementing the variable node scope offset - Part 3

7m 7s

61. Pushing variables to the scope

1m 35s

62. Implementing Body's - Part 4

15m 13s

63. Implementing Body's - Part 5

5m 39s

64. Implementing Structures - Part 3

17m 46s

65. Implementing Structures - Part 4

8m 41s

66. Initializing our symbol resolver

1m 25s

67. Testing our structure functionality

2m 33s

68. Error checking our structures

4m 17s

69. Project cleanup

2m 30s

70. Understanding Functions

7m 32s

71. Implementing The Function Structures

4m 54s

72. Parsing functions

22m 59s

73. Parsing functions arguments

9m 15s

74. Dealing with upward stacks

3m 34s

75. Changing the parsing of identifiers

35s

76. Res = 0 is missing

77. Implementing expression parentheses

14m 30s

78. Implementing IF statement

9m 49s

79. Implementing Else And Else If

6m 30s

80. Fixing some compiler warnings

1m 37s

81. Implementing the return statement

4m 17s

82. Implementing for loops

11m 1s

83. Implementing while loops

4m 9s

84. Implementing Do While Loops

3m 26s

85. Implementing switch statements

13m 23s

86. Implementing continue and break

3m 35s

87. Implementing labels

5m 16s

88. Implementing goto

3m 43s

89. Implementing switch cases

4m 26s

90. Implementing tenaries

4m 56s

91. Implementing commas

1m 59s

92. Implementing array brackets

3m 16s

93. Implementing casts

5m 59s

94. Case indexes or our register case function

52s

95. Understanding Fixups

4m 29s

96. Creating our fixup core functionality

14m 8s

97. Integrating our fixup functionality into the parser

7m 7s

98. Parsing forward declarations

2m 3s

99. Parsing unions

8m 23s

100. Adjusting the function stack size

59s

101. Additional recording for nodes

19m 51s

Module 1 Summary

2 Lessons

0H 2M

102. Module 1 Summary

1m 59s

103. Module 2 Information

22s

Module 2 : Code Generator

83 Lessons

14H 16M

104. The Code generator

2m 2s

105. Building the fundementals

7m 36s

106. Beginning the iteration of the AST

11m

107. Generating global variables

8m 42s

108. Understanding the label systems

9m 34s

109. Building the label system

16m 25s

110. Dealing with strings in the code generator

2m 45s

111. Building our string registration system

14m 30s

112. Implementing numerical values for global variables

2m 27s

113. Implementing string values for global variables

2m 36s

114. Fixing issue parsing strings

1m 27s

115. Stackframes

16m 43s

116. Building our stack frame functionality

19m 29s

117. The resolver explained

13m 49s

118. Creating the resolver - Part 1

29m 25s

119. Creating the resolver - Part 2

20m 43s

120. Creating the resolver - Part 3

11m 30s

121. How array offsets are calculated

10m 18s

122. Creating the resolver - Part 4

15m 26s

123. Creating the resolver - Part 5

9m 25s

124. Calculating structure and union offsets

10m 8s

125. Implementing the struct_offset function

12m

126. Creating the resolver - Part 6

12m 14s

127. Creating the resolver - Part 7

15m 31s

128. Creating the resolver - Part 8

15m 6s

129. Creating the resolver - Part 9

16m 18s

130. Creating the resolver - Part 10

15m 12s

131. Implementing unaries

18m 25s

132. Creating the resolver - Part 11

7m 29s

133. Creating the resolver - Part 12

8m 43s

134. Creating the resolver - Part 13

6m 58s

135. Creating the resolver - Part 14

9m 45s

136. Creating the resolver - Part 15

19m 26s

137. Creating the resolver default handler

37m 8s

138. Starting to implement function code generation

33m 12s

139. Implementing the foundation of scope variables

35m

140. Fixing the parser_scope_offset_for_stack function

2m 41s

141. Assigning Variables

32m 23s

142. Code generator response system

6m 3s

143. Implementing the code generator response system and expressions

144. Running our first program

9m 39s

145. Modifying our parser_datatype_init_type_and_size function

1m 36s

146. Generating identifier variable access

11m 9s

147. Handling pointer values in expressions

7m 5s

148. Implementing logical operators

20m 55s

149. Implementing function calls

17m 23s

150. Generating structures

21m 19s

151. Generating structures - Part 2

9m 19s

152. Generating the get address operator

5m 11s

153. Useful resources

1m 52s

154. Finishing the codegen_resolve_node_for_value function

3m 10s

155. Finishing unaries

23m 59s

156. Generating unsupported entities

3m 36s

157. Generating statement return

19m 43s

158. Generating if statements

7m 32s

159. Generating while loops

4m 57s

160. Generating do while loops

3m 11s

161. Generating for loops

8m 42s

162. Generating break statements

1m 55s

163. Generating continue statements

3m 8s

164. Fixing bug in for statements

2m 49s

165. Creating switch statements

9m 5s

166. Creating switch statements Part 2

7m 25s

167. Creating switch statements Part 3

6m 24s

168. Generating goto statements

1m 55s

169. Creating labels

1m 11s

170. Creating strings and calling printf

4m 47s

171. Generating expression parenthesis

2m 13s

172. Creating tenary nodes

5m 36s

173. Generating casts

5m 26s

174. Generating array access

8m 14s

175. Generating array access - Part 2

2m 32s

176. Fixing a bug with indirection assignments

3m 48s

177. Generating unions

2m 57s

178. Generating array variables in the global scope

1m 48s

179. Finishing the codegen_generate_global_variable function

32s

180. Generating variable lists

3m 40s

181. Escaping characters

3m 39s

182. Finishing our operators

15m 41s

183. Implementing the ++ and -- operators

18m 43s

184. Fixing a couple bugs

4m 9s

185. Fixing a bug with the switch statements default case

5m 36s

186. Fixing a bug with function calls within arguments

10m 27s

Module 3: The preprocessor and expressionable systems

55 Lessons

10H 27M

187. The preprocessor brief introduction

3m 40s

188. What is the expressionable system

4m 45s

189. Creating our expressionable structures

15m 23s

190. Creating our expressionable system - Part 1

16m 21s

191. Creating our expressionable system - Part 2

13m 38s

192. Creating our expressionable system - Part 3

16m 59s

193. Creating our expressionable system - Part 4

12m 26s

194. Creating our expressionable system - Part 5

7m 46s

195. Creating our expressionable system - Part 6

12m 16s

196. The Preprocessor Internal And Mechanics

15m 32s

197. Creating the preprocessor structures

7m 52s

198. Beginning the preprocessor logic

37m 17s

199. Creating the preprocessor expressionable configuration

23m 21s

200. Creating the define macro

25m 59s

201. Creating macro arguments

11m 29s

202. Implementing undef

2m 37s

203. Implementing the macro warning

5m 22s

204. Implementing the macro error

1m 59s

205. Creating the ifdef macro

20m 4s

206. Creating the ifndef macro

3m 14s

207. Evaluating expressions in the preprocessor - Part 1

7m 16s

208. Implementing the if macro

3m 46s

209. Evaluating expressions in the preprocessor - Part 2

210. Evaluating the expressions in the preprocessor part 3

15m 23s

211. Evaluating the expressions in the preprocessor part 4

11m 5s

212. Understanding macro functions

8m 7s

213. Implementing macro functions - Part 1

37m 30s

214. Getting the value of definitions from within source code

9m 3s

215. Implementing macro functions part 2

15m 14s

216. Implementing macro functions part 3

6m 45s

217. Finishing the typedef directive - Part 1

29m 13s

218. Finishing the typedef directive - Part 2

17m 31s

219. Implementing macro strings - Part 1

7m 24s

220. Implementing macro strings - Part 2

8m 10s

221. Implementing preprocessor unary not

3m 21s

222. Fixing a mistake with logical not in the code generator

3m 17s

223. Implementing the parentheses node in the preprocessor

1m 19s

224. Implementing joined nodes in the preprocessor

6m 44s

225. Evaluating tenaries in the preprocessor

43s

226. Processing concat directive in the preprocessor

17m 22s

227. Creating native definitions - Part 1

13m 23s

228. Creating native definitions - Part 2

3m 55s

229. Implementing includes - Part 1

18m 9s

230. Implementing includes - Part 2

231. Implementing includes - Part 3

17m 10s

232. Implementing sizeof

2m 34s

233. Fixing some issues with casting pointers

6m 45s

234. Implementing offsetof

3m 52s

235. Adding our source file as an included file

2m 18s

236. Implementing Native Functions - Part 1

21m 4s

237. Implementing Native Functions - Part 2

25m 7s

238. Implementing VALIST - Part 1

14m 8s

239. Implementing VALIST - Part 2

12m 49s

240. Finishing some important header files

9m 41s

241. Summary Module 3

3m 7s

Module 4 - The Validator

8 Lessons

0H 53M

242. What is semantic validation?

6m 15s

243. Building the foundations

3m 45s

244. Implementing validator scopes

3m 59s

245. Implementing validation of functions

10m 26s

246. Implementing validation of variables

247. Implementing the validation of statements

11m 25s

248. Implementing the validation of structures and unions

3m 24s

249. Continuing the validator

8m 54s

Daniel McCarthy

Dragon Zap Instructor

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Dragon Zap Instructor

Daniel McCarthy is a seasoned software engineer, boasting an impressive career spanning over 14 years in the industry. Holding a Master's Degree in Advanced Computer Science from Cardiff Metropolitan University, his broad spectrum of experience encompasses everything from web development to complex compiler and interpreter development. Daniel has honed his skills in bootloader and kernel development. In testament to his proficiency in the field, he has designed two proprietary programming languages: Craft, a general-purpose language, and Marble, a web-focused language akin to PHP. Moreover, he has successfully developed compilers for the C programming language. A testament to his versatility, Daniel demonstrates proficiency in an extensive list of programming languages that includes C, C++, Java, x86 Assembly language, PIC assembly, SQL, PHP, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, and of course, his own creations, Craft and Marble. His professional portfolio also includes the development of Linux kernel modules, a task he has executed with proficiency in a professional context. Currently, Daniel is channeling his wealth of experience and expertise into the education sector, with the aim of nurturing the next generation of professional software engineers.

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Arkan M

2 weeks ago

Excellent course

Kaloyan Ivanov

2 months ago

Very thorough explanation

Omar Belghaouti

2 months ago

Really liked the course, I needed this to get to know the basics for compiler development, thanks!

Federico R.

2 months ago

Flawless.

Waleed Mashaqbeh

6 months ago

It would be of great value if the course had some theoretical background on compilers.

Fahad Assiri

7 months ago

Great course.

Fedi Nabli

7 months ago

Hello Daniel, Thank you for this amazing course, I hope that you can add part 2 where we learn how to complete it fully including an assemblre or linking library instead of relying on nasm and gcc-multilib so we can make it cross platform. Kind Reagrds, Fedi

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