Compiling a Compiler – GCC

From all the work i have been doing on compilers recently i have started to realise a lot of people won’t know how to compile up GCC or even how that works. Since how are you meant to compile a compiler written in a language that itself implements. Well the technique is called [...]

Reference Counted Garbage Collector!

Garbage collection is a subject we all wish we knew more about, many software developers think they understand the concept fully and think building it should then be a trivial task. Building a ref-counted garbage collector, was much much more painful than i ever expected in crules. I am going to focus on how this [...]

Parsing the Doom Wad File

So it was a fine Christmas, I was at home with family armed only with 2 seasons of xFiles and my laptop added to the factI didn’t upload my ssh key to my laptop so hacking on Crules was out the window. So it got me thinking on the main goals for my Crules Scripting [...]