Jonathan Caves Blog

Answers

I've got some feedback to my recent blogs ... mostly in the form of questions: so here are some (hopefully useful) answers. Andrew asked about my thoughts on general compiler design. I'd sum it up in one phrase - Keep It Simple - break the compilation

Developing the Compiler

Working on a compiler can be difficult: you can make what you think is a minor change to fix a bug, check it in to the source tree. If you get the fix wrong and you are lucky, you’ll have your QA team telling you that you just broke a whole series

Welcome

Welcome: everyone else seems to be blogging so I thought I'd join them. A little bit about myself. I've been working on compilers for longer than I care to remember (Pascal, Fortran, Modula-2, C and most recently C++). For the last 10 years I've been

What Compiler Do You Use?

This is a common question I get asked at a lot of conferences: users are always interested in what tools we use internally. The answer is complicated. First: there is no one single version of the compiler which is used by every team at Microsoft. Each

I've been Relocated!

It was decided that the “official” Microsoft Blog site would be on asp.net - so I've moved my blog here. I'll repost my previous blog entries so that they are all located in one place.