How to build an AST or a CST from a top-down parser and how to use it for converting source code into an intermediate language

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Hi, i'm developing a compiler and i'm having some problems building the abstract syntax tree and using it for the intermediate code generator.
Does anyone have some references or some advices which could help me?
This is the repository of the compiler that I'm writing with my friends
https://github.com/team-reframe/Behemoth/tree/develop

What I have tried:

Seeked source code in github and read a lot of books

Posted 2-Mar-18 23:33pm

Filippo Fantinato

Updated 3-Mar-18 0:43am

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2018-03-03T00:44:00

Solution 1

See The LEX & YACC Page[^].

Posted 3-Mar-18 0:44am

Richard MacCutchan

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Filippo Fantinato 3-Mar-18 15:44pm

I'm not using lex or bison
I'm doing things from scratch

Richard MacCutchan 4-Mar-18 3:09am

Then it is unlikely that we can offer more than references like the above. When you have specific questions people will try to help you.