chai2010/go-ast-book

Features

• Compiler Development Resources - Provides a comprehensive reference for translating high-level Go code into intermediate representations and single static assignment form.
• Compiler Frontend Development - Provides a comprehensive reference for building compiler frontends, from parsing to intermediate representation generation.
• Semantic Code Analyzers - Utilizes semantic analysis to identify logical errors and verify code correctness beyond basic syntax.
• SSA Conversion Pipelines - Transforms abstract syntax trees into single assignment form to simplify and enable data flow analysis.
• Symbol Table Resolution - Provides a lookup mechanism to map variable and function names to their respective types and values.
• AST Tutorials - Offers a guide to converting source code into tree nodes for structural analysis and semantic verification.
• Go AST Analysis Guides - Provides a technical resource for parsing, traversing, and analyzing Go source code using the abstract syntax tree package.
• Abstract Syntax Tree Parsing - Implements the conversion of Go source code into structured abstract syntax trees for programmatic analysis.
• Compile-Time Correctness Verification - Performs static analysis and type checking to ensure code adheres to logical rules and maintains type consistency.
• Go Parsers - Parses Go source code into abstract syntax trees to analyze the structure of functions, types, and declarations.
• Identifier Resolutions - Maps variable names in a syntax tree to their corresponding values using a contextual lookup table.
• Intermediate Representation Translation - Explains the process of converting abstract syntax trees into low-level intermediate representations for backend processing.
• Variable Declaration Extraction - Locates variable, constant, and type declarations within function bodies using pattern matching.
• Variable Declaration Detection - Detects variable names and associated types by identifying declaration tokens within the syntax tree.
• Language Tooling Development - Teaches how to build tools that scan, transform, and interpret code by manipulating syntax tree nodes.
• Static Single Assignment Forms - Details the transformation of high-level syntax trees into single static assignment form for optimized execution.
• Source Code Tokenizers - Breaks down source code into identifiers and operators to prepare text for structural analysis.
• Type Checking - Verifies the logical correctness of programs by checking type consistency and compatibility across the syntax tree.
• Static Single Assignment Analysis - Implements analysis techniques that transform high-level code into a form where each variable is assigned exactly once.
• Type Definition Parsing - Provides specialized parsing of type definitions and aliases by examining type specification nodes in the syntax tree.
• Static Code Analysis - Examines source code without execution to perform type checking and verify semantic correctness.
• AST Extraction - Provides comprehensive techniques for extracting abstract syntax trees from source code for structural analysis.
• Source Position Tracking - Maps tokens to precise source locations using offsets, filenames, line numbers, and column numbers.
• Object Value Resolution - Identifies the type and value of specific objects by analyzing semantic information.
• Array and Slice Type Analysis - Extracts array length constraints and element types to distinguish between fixed-size arrays and dynamic slices.
• Channel Type Analysis - Determines data types and communication directions for send, receive, or bidirectional channel declarations.
• Type Determination - Implements the retrieval of resulting types for complex expressions at compile time without executing the code.
• Named Constant Declarations - Retrieves constant names, assigned values, and type constraints from the abstract syntax tree.
• Function Signature Analysis - Extracts function names, receiver types, input parameters, and return values from a parsed syntax tree.
• Interface Type Analysis - Parses interface method sets using field lists to define the required behaviors of a type.
• Package Dependency Validation - Provides mechanisms to load and link information from imported packages to validate types across module boundaries.
• Language Interpreters - Demonstrates how to execute a restricted language subset by interpreting its abstract syntax tree directly.
• Literal Identification - Recognizes integers, floats, complex numbers, characters, and strings within the source code.
• Map Type Analysis - Identifies key and value type expressions in map declarations to understand data association structures.
• Parameter Group Analysis - Identifies groups of parameters that share a common type and tracks their identifiers.
• Pointer Type Analysis - Provides techniques for deconstructing pointer declarations to determine indirection depth and underlying base types.
• Source Coordinate Systems - Organizes multiple files into a unified coordinate system to track positions across source files.
• Source Position Trackings - Implements mechanisms for calculating precise line and column offsets to map language constructs to source coordinates.
• Struct Type Analysis - Implements logic to map structure definitions to field lists containing member names, shared types, and metadata tags.
• Type Assertion Identification - Locates type assertion expressions to determine how a program validates interface types at runtime.
• Expression Tree Evaluators - Implements algorithms for recursively traversing syntax tree nodes to compute numerical results of expressions.
• Import Statement Validators - Extracts package import paths and local aliases by analyzing the syntax tree of import statements.
• AST Visualization - Provides utilities to print visual representations of syntax trees for human inspection and analysis.
• Coordinate Tracking - Implements a system for recording precise line and column offsets to map syntax tree nodes back to source positions.
• IR Generators - Translates abstract syntax trees into standardized intermediate representations to enable the generation of executable programs.
• Flow Control Analysis - Identifies the structure of branching and looping constructs within a syntax tree for logic analysis.
• Composite Literal Analysis - Inspects syntax trees of arrays, slices, structs, and maps to extract types and initializations.
• AST Generators - Translates Go language constructs such as selector expressions and slice operations into AST structures.
• Deferred Execution Analysis - Detects concurrency and deferred statements by locating associated function calls within the syntax tree.
• Static Analysis AST Parsing - Parses value-producing statements and arithmetic operations into structural tree nodes.
• Expression Parsing - Converts source code strings into syntax tree nodes to analyze unary and binary operations.
• Structural Parsing - Parses Go source code into abstract syntax trees to analyze function declarations and method signatures.
• Function Literal Analysis - Examines anonymous function signatures and bodies by identifying their structure within the syntax tree.
• Identifier Role Analysis - Extracts names and metadata from identifiers to determine their role as variables, constants, or functions.
• SSA-Based Execution - Runs programs represented in single assignment form using an optimized intermediate representation.
• Learning Resources - Introduction to working with the language's abstract syntax tree.

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