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David Bellot - 05 Oct 2006 11:20 GMT

Hi,

as an exercise, I'd like to write a compiler for .net for a very small
language. I'd like to know where I could find documents about CIL/CLR
and how to start such a project. I already wrote compilers for real
processors, so what I need is information about CIL/CLR, file formats
all those things.
Your help would be very appreciated.

Best,
David

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Jon Shemitz - 05 Oct 2006 19:08 GMT

> as an exercise, I'd like to write a compiler for .net for a very small
> language. I'd like to know where I could find documents about CIL/CLR
> and how to start such a project. I already wrote compilers for real
> processors, so what I need is information about CIL/CLR, file formats
> all those things.

For a small exercise, I'd look at Reflection.Emit. It has opcode
summaries, and it takes care of file format details for you.

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Mattias Sjögren - 05 Oct 2006 20:45 GMT

David,

>I already wrote compilers for real
>processors, so what I need is information about CIL/CLR, file formats
>all those things.

The CLI spec has all that.

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-335.htm

There are also some good books you may want to read

"Compiling for the .NET Common Language Runtime" by John Gough
"Inside Microsoft .NET IL Assembler" by Serge Lidin

Mattias

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Greg Young - 08 Oct 2006 20:09 GMT

Actually Serge has a new edition out.

http://www.amazon.com/Expert-NET-2-0-IL-Assembler/dp/1590596463

Cheers,

Greg Young
MVP - C#
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agapeton@gmail.com - 07 Oct 2006 06:04 GMT

Joe Duffy did a talk on this... called "Write a compiler in one hour"

http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,a8abcdce-bd63-4d1c-8bca-2cea
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