Godspeed: Golang to X86-64 compiler

Compiler Design course project done under Prof. Amey Karkare and Prof. Subhajit Roy, 2021-22-II semester. SIT triplet:

• Source - Golang
• Implementation - C++
• Target - X86

Group Members

Name	Roll No	Email
Shubh Agrawal	190828	[email protected]
Shubhankar Gambhir	190835	[email protected]
Tarun Kanodia	190902	[email protected]
V. Pramodh Gopalan	190933	[email protected]

Dependencies

• GNU Flex
• GNU Bison
• GNU Make

Features:

Basic:

• Native data types: Int, Char, Bool
• Variables and Expressions (Large expressions also supported)
• Conditional: if, if-else
• Loops: for
• Break, Continue
• Arrays
• Input, output
• Functions (support for arbitrary number of parameters), recursion
• Pointers
• Arithmetic operators
• Logical and bitwise operators

Advanced:

• Multiple assignments in single line (a, b, c := 1,2,3)
• Dynamic Memory Allocation
• Auto-type inference
• Short variable declaration
• Multidimensional Arrays
• Multilevel Pointers
• Global variables

Running the compiler

Steps to the generate the X86 code

	make
	./bin/parser <path to go file>

Then execute the generated binary by:

	./a.out