public class Main
extends Object
Driver class for j-- compiler using hand-written front-end. This is the main
entry point for the compiler. The compiler proceeds as follows:
(1) It reads arguments that affects its behavior.
(2) It builds a scanner.
(3) It builds a parser (using the scanner) and parses the input for producing
an abstact syntax tree (AST).
(4) It sends the preAnalyze() message to that AST, which recursively descends
the tree so far as the memeber headers for declaring types and members in the
symbol table (represented as a string of contexts).
(5) It sends the analyze() message to that AST for declaring local variables,
and cheking and assigning types to expressions. Analysis also sometimes
rewrites some of the abstract syntax trees for clarifying the semantics.
Analysis does all of this by recursively descending the AST down to its
leaves.
(6) Finally, it sends a codegen() message to the AST for generating code.
Again, codegen() recursively descends the tree, down to its leaves,
generating JVM code for producing a .class or .s (SPIM) file for each defined
type (class).