Now that we have a stream of tokens we can start performing syntactic analysis.

Now that the minimal infrastructure is already set, we can start with the implementation of our tiny front end. Today we will talk about the lexer.

The previous installment of this series was all about the syntax and the semantics of the tiny language. In this chapter we will start implementing a front end for tiny in GCC. The journey will be long but rewarding. Let's get started.

In this series we will see the process of adding a new front end for a very simple language in GCC. If you, like me, marvel at the magic of compilers then these posts may be for you.

In the last two parts of this series we've seen how to use GCC JIT and how to apply it to a simple regular expression matcher. But an open question remains, has it been worth the effort? This part will try to figure it out.