A Lox implementation written in C. This book follows the "Crafting Interpreters" book and it aims to complete the baseline implementation reference for the C compiler and pass all tests from the Lox test suite.
This project contains 3 fundamental steps to compiling and running Lox projects:
- A Front End Compiler that reads Lox and outputs IR
- A portable Intermediate Representation called Bytecode
- A Virtual Machine for executing the IR generated
- Replace encoding of line information to something akin to run-length encoding
- Implement a
OP_CONSTANT_LONGinstruction to store 24-bit numbers. - Hardcore mode: Replace
stdlib.hheap allocator methods.
- Remove
OP_NEGATEand useOP_SUBTRACT - Dynamically grow the stack as needed to avoid Stack overflow.