Re: question about linker

On 05/12/2024 10:20, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

On 05.12.2024 02:29, Tim Rentsch wrote:

Also, the idea that one can figure out the rules of the C language
by looking at compiler sources is just laughable.

 Sure. (But that wasn't something that I said. By "sources" I did
not mean "source code" but sources of information, books, etc.)
 The idea to consider source code quasi as a [syntax-]"defining"
source came from Bart elsethread.

If you look at the data parts of my compiler source code, then many elements of the syntax are listed: types, reserved words, operators, tokens, precedences, scopes, properties, conversions...
For the shape of the syntax, then since the compiler is self-hosted, then it serves also as a 30,000-line example of what it looks like.