Compiler Front-end: Building a lexer

We will build a lexical analyzer for the Kaleidoscope programming language which converts source code into tokens. This is the first program to interact with the source during compilation.

Table of contents.Introduction.The lexical analyzer.Summary.References.Prerequisites.LLVM, IR, SSAIntroduction.

Lexical analysis is the first phase of a compiler. The first program to process code written in a high-level programming language such as Java, C/C . A lexical analyzer breaks syntaxes in...