AAaap_·Jun 22, 2025
Always nice to see more B. Here's mine: https://github.com/aap/b
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B compiler
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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5 sourcesAnecdote probably not. But i learned how a compiler works from it and reconstructed the B compiler based on it (found here: https://github.com/aap/b, warning: repo is messy, will clean up more soon hopefully).
In The earliest versions of the first C compiler known to existThe interpreter is part of the binary yes. I have reversed what was available here: http://squoze.net/B/ and written my own B compiler that generates the same threaded code as well: https://github.com/aap/b
In Unix Edition Zero (1971)I wrote a B compiler: https://github.com/aap/b
it generates the original threaded code and has a runtime for amd64, mips32 and riscv64. should get the pdp-11 one working too sometime...
Documented the original pdp-7 and pdp-11 implementations here: http://squoze.net/B/
In The Programming Language B (1973)