> books on compiler construction

The difficulty I have with most such books is that they all go into much
detail explaining the easy parts of a compiler (scanner/parser, code
generation for a stack automaton, activation records, static and dynamic
link) which I can easily find out for myself (although it surely helps to
read a few of those books), and a few describe some advanced techniques that
I find not applicable to PICs (optimization of register allocation). But
none describe the real hard things, like code/data allocation and page/bank
optimization (that are 4 different things!) and handling a fixed-depth
stack. This can partly be attributed to the fact that the PIC architecture
is way beside the current mainstream of CPU architectures. Two books I
remember as eye-openers are a description of the CHILL-11 compiler (Wulff et
al) and 'A microprogrammed APL interpreter' by R.Zaks.

Wouter

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