Feel free to build your interpreter by extending this skeletal version.
Working individually or in teams of two, write an interpreter for (a subset of) the PCAT language, as described in the PCAT Language Reference Manual (available from the course web page). Exclude anything to do with real numbers, and the LOOP and EXIT statements. The official abstract syntax for this subset of PCAT is described in /u/cs302acc/ast.txt. The Manual fails to indicate the range of the PCAT INTEGER type; it is intended to be a 32-bit signed value, i.e., in the range [-2147483648,2147483647].
The interpreter should be an executable that takes a single command line argument specifying the .ast file to be interpreted. It may assume that the .ast file has successfully passed the typechecker. The interpreter should execute the user program, reading any user input from stdin and writing any user output to stdout.
If the user program terminates normally, the interpreter should print the message ``Interpreter done'' to stderr. In addition, the interpreter should terminate with an appropriate error message to stderr if any of the following conditions occur: division by zero, failure to return a value from a function procedure, invalid user input to a READ statement, array subscript out of bounds, dereferencing a NIL record pointer. The interpreter may also terminate with the message ``Out of memory'' to stderr when appropriate. When given a non-terminating user program the interpreter should not terminate, or else give ``Out of memory,'' or else dump core due to stack overflow. (Note that maximum stack size can be controlled using the limit shell command.) Under no other circumstances should the interpreter dump core on any typechecked program.
A ``correct'' interpreter executable is available in /u/cs302acc/2/interp.
Package your interpreter as described above, to read the externalized AST format from a file specified on the command line. You can generate the type-checked .ast files however you like. One way is to use the front end (lexer, parser, typechecker) executable provided in /u/cs302acc/bin/frontend, which prints (type-checked) trees to stdout. Another is to use your own front-end code, using the print utilities in /u/cs302acc/2/ast.c to output the trees. In either case, use the parser provided in /u/cs302acc/2/parse_ast.y to do the work of parsing the external format into the internal ast structures defined in /u/cs302acc/2/ast.h. Support functions for environments and the store are available in /u/cs302acc/2/state.[ch].
There is also a skeletal
interpreter making use of these support functions in
/u/cs302acc/2/interp0.c, which is capable of handling
very simple user programs such as:
Feel free to build your interpreter by extending this skeletal version.
A number of short PCAT programs suitable for testing your interpreter are in directory /u/cs302acc/pcat. You are encouraged to submit additional test programs for use by the class in this and subsequent assignments; please mail your candidate programs to apt@cs.pdx.edu, and I'll arrange to put them in the pcat directory. The directory /u/cs302acc/2/tst is set up to use the regression testing approach described in the separate handout of that name.
Prepare a makefile that builds your interpreter and produces an executable called interp. Submit your program by mailing a shar ``bundle'' containing all the relevant files to cs302acc@cs.pdx.edu.