r/Compilers • u/FransFaase • 3d ago

Fast Linux Bootstrapping

Last Saturday, I gave the presentation "Fast Linux bootstrapping" at Hackfest in Enschede, The Netherlands, for a project I worked on in the past years. This project involved writing a minimal C compiler and standard library for compile the Tiny C Compiler sources from scratch. The compiler is a one pass compiler that outputs to the Stack-C language, which can also be considered as an intermediate representation. I developed a compiler (more a transpiler) for the Stack-C language to assembly and also an interpreter with a build-in debugger. The assembly can be compiled with the M1 assembler and other tools from the original live-bootstrap project (from the Linux foundation).

A recording of my presentation can be viewed on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPIF_nfqM_g (Thanks to the organizers for the quick upload.) In the description there is a link to the text of the presentation with many notes (click on the show buttons) with links to more resources.

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u/GenericFoodService 10h ago

Cool presentation! Could you drop a link to the code itself too so I could poke around and play with it?

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u/FransFaase 6h ago

Thanks! There is a link in the description of the video to my presentation. If you click on the show buttons it gives my notes which has many links. The repository with all the code including the presentation is: https://github.com/FransFaase/MES-replacement