Table Of Contents

Resources

• LLVM Tutorial: Table of Contents
• Standford Course: Compilers
• Algorithmica - Compilation

Build Process

Build System

• Software for automating compilation process
• It includes some improvements:
  • Incremental builds
  • Facilitates modular design
• The most known build system for C/C++ is Make, others like Ninja are pretty common too
• CMake is a build system generator, it generates build system files.

Memory

In a nutshell

Two types of memory:

• Program Memory: Non-volatile
  • ROM(Read Only Memory): It cant be reprogrammed after manufacturing. It usually includes the bootloader
  • Flash memory: It can be erased and reprogramed
• Data Memory: Volatile
  • RAM(Random Access Memory)
  • Sometimes, we have also have EEPROM: Non volatile memory

Terminology