It was develeped as a Compilers course project in Fall 2010 at:
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER)
University of Zagreb, Croatia
The compiler is written in Java in a generic fashion:
- Lexical Analyzer (lexer) is generated from lexical rules
- Parser (Syntax Analyzer) is generated from the provided grammar
- The generated compilation library (
spocc-core) is accessed via two standalone programs that provide:- Command Line Interface
- Graphical User Interface that serves as an IDE (and source editor)
The generation of lexer (module spocc-lag) and parser (module
spocc-sag) is done from scratch using automata theory, without the
use of tools such as JFlex and ANTLR.
More details can be found in the documentation:
- original version (in Croatian)
- English translation
Unfortunately, the code generation part is not implemented, due to the lack of team enthusiasm and tight time constraints. Nevertheless, we believe that this could serve as a useful reference in the design and implementation of compilers (at least for the educational purposes).