Meta, a straightforward compiler-compiler

This project is based on META-II by Val Schorre.

Meta generates C code implementing a parser/compiler for a EBNF-like grammar file.

Meta is written in itself so it needs to be bootstrapped from a C implementation.

Build and use

To bootstrap:

make meta

To compile a grammar in the same directory:

make grammar

To compile directly:

./meta grammar.meta grammar.c
gcc grammar.c -o grammar

TODO

• Refactoring
• Understandable messages for syntax errors and warnings
• Create useful grammar examples
• Create a demonstration compiler
• Saner documentation
• Multilanguage documentation (english, etc)