Re: Book on Compiler Design

[Arun Sharma <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 02:55:44PM +1100, Raja Subramanian wrote:
> 
> IMHO, the APUE equivalent in compiler design is "Compiler Design in C", by
> Allen Holub, Prentice Hall pub. Extremely well organised and loaded with great
> examples.
> 
> Both the books are a must read anyway.

But they're both like reading Bach about UNIX :) All the action these 
days is in how do you do processor specific optimizations. Most people
just buy a standard lexer/parser from EDG.

Search Amazon for "Modern compiler design" and similar books.

	-Arun