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Implementing a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) with LLVM and C++

Tutorial February 12, 2025

We’ll implement a recursive-descent parser that constructs an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) from tokens. Our grammar is defined with standard operator precedence:

expression → term ((‘+’ | ‘-’) term)*
term       → factor ((‘*’ | ‘/’) factor)*
factor     → Number | ‘(’ expression ‘)’