C Studying about compilers.

[Tu_Vieja]

Hi guys!

Recently I got interested about compilers, how they works, how it analyzes the source code, how they translate code, how how how.
The good thing for me is that I don't want to create a full compiler from scratch (yet), but instead I want to understand how the different parts works and interact between them and try to create that individual modules (lexical analyzer, parser, etc) on my own.

A this moment, I'm reading "Compilers: Principles, techniques and tools" (Aho, Seti, Ullman). As I understand, that book it's kind of a bible on this topic, and after reading some pages I see why. The only problem is that this book have a lot of theory, and I love theory, but I also want a more direct and practical aplications of that knowledge.
Reading in other forums, I see a lot of recomendations about different books, older and new. But because I love UNIX history and everything related, I want to know if you could give some recommendation about good and practical material to read that speaks of compilers or C compilers or compilers in a UNIX enviroment or somethings else that compliments "Compilers:...".

Thanks in advance.

 

[ralphbsz]

Ron Mak: "Writing Compilers and Interpreters: A Software Engineering Approach"

 

[xavi]

The blog post 'Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.' has good advice.

 

[Tu_Vieja]

Ron Mak: "Writing Compilers and Interpreters: A Software Engineering Approach"

Looks interesting, I'll buy it eventually 'cause right now no one sell it in my town.

The blog post 'Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.' has good advice.

That article led me to the Crenshaw page (one of the papers in the title), and it's pretty much what I want. Practical, simple, escalable, with some background theory. Thank you very much.

 

[camp0]

I Liked this one "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools". Some times hard to read but if you got the concepts I think is a good book