Virtual Machine and Byte-Code

[Chris Cranford]

Can someone point me in the direction of resources, existing classes, or open
source examples which illustrate writing a virtual machine environment in
C/C++...

My goal is to write a complete basic-language byte-code compiler in C++ to
write compressed byte-code images in a specified format that later can be
loaded by a virtual machine in C++ to execute each byte-code/op-code in
memory.

Thanks,
Chris
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[Karl Heinz Buchegger]

Can someone point me in the direction of resources, existing classes, or open
source examples which illustrate writing a virtual machine environment in
C/C++...

My goal is to write a complete basic-language byte-code compiler in C++ to
write compressed byte-code images in a specified format that later can be
loaded by a virtual machine in C++ to execute each byte-code/op-code in
memory.

You need to read on compiler construction. If taken seriously
this is a huge topic on its own. Tools like compiler compilers
(like bison, yacc, coco, etc..) can help tremendiously.

Compiling for a virtual machine is no more different then
for any other CPU. Just that you have the luxery of defining
the CPU (and the environment of this CPU works in) on your own.