Writing an IR from Scratch and survive to write a post

[matt_d]

https://farena.in/compilers/programming/writing-an-ir-from-scratch/

[rahimnathwani]

IR = Intermediate Representation

Context: compilers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_representation

[osrec → rahimnathwani]

I wish authors would include the full form in brackets after the first use of an acronym in a text.

[ec109685 → osrec]

They do so:

“ though the project is discontinued (a new version is being written here Shuriken), I thought it would be interesting to write about my experience of how I wrote the first version of its Intermediate Representation (from now on IR), how I implemented the different algorithms, and how I transformed Dalvik bytecode into this IR”

[yard2010 → osrec]

I do that all the time to the point that it makes every acronym a TWoT (total waste of time)

[CobrastanJorji]

Ohhhhhh. I clicked on this because Scratch was capitalized, and I though "wow, an IR for MIT's Scratch." I'm a little disappointed now.

[VoidWhisperer]

For some reason when reading the title, I thought infrared instead of intermediate representation.

It also still made a tiny bit of sense in that context since you can easily set stuff on fire with IR laser

[smnrchrds → VoidWhisperer]

I understood what IR was, but due to the capitalization of the title, I thought it was written in Scratch programming language.

[parlortricks → VoidWhisperer]

Ha, I read it as Incident Response and was about to read the gory details.

[blackmesaind → parlortricks]

Same here! Although in the context of "Writing" an IR, writing an incident response policy makes the most sense (but isn't very blog worthy)