GCC Frontend HOWTO

Sreejith K Menon

1. Introduction

• 1.1 New Versions of the document
• 1.2 Feedback and Corrections
• 1.3 Why I have written this
• 1.4 Distribution Policy
• 1.5 Acknowledgements

2. Some general ideas about Compilers

3. Compiler Tools

• 3.1 Flex
• 3.2 Bison

4. GCC Front End

• 4.1 Tree and rtl

5. Installing the GCC

6. Getting started

• 6.1 Call back routines

7. Creating our own front end

• 7.1 Our Aim
• 7.2 Expressions
• 7.3 Functions
• 7.4 Variable Declaration
• 7.5 Assignments
• 7.6 Expressions revisited
• 7.7 Return
• 7.8 Conditional statement
• 7.9 Loops

8. Demo front end

9. See also