A Tiger Compiler

The Tiger Language

Written by Andrew W.Appel, the author of Tiger Book, the Tiger language is a small language with nested functions, records values with implicit pointers, arraya, integer and string variables, and a few simple structured control constructs.

For more details, see the Appendix section of that book.

Prerequisites

Assumed you are in the root folder.

CentOS

1. ./travis_scripts/install_centos.sh

CentOS Docker

1. ./travis_scripts/install_centos_docker.sh

Build

1. cd Compiler
2. make

Then the generated compiler will be hosted in builds folder named tiger.

Compiler Usage

1. cd Compiler
2. ./builds/tiger-compiler ./testcases/testXXX.tig

The generated executable file will be under the testcases folder with name testXXX.

Debug

Debug with STL

I'll make this a prerequisite which is going to be included in the above shell scripts. At this time you can setup all necessary stuffs using instructions at this site http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/STLSupport.

Debug in Docker

Lanuch your docker with following options added --privileged --cap-add=SYS_PTRACE.

Unit Test

Module Status

Module Coverage

First make sure that you have installed a browser such as firefox, the commands following will try to open the results via it.

1. cd Compiler/Coverage-Report.
2. make.

Todo

See Compiler/TODO.