It doesn't. Half of the book is not even in C (The book is half java (simpler interpreter), half C (bytecode compiler + VM)). The book explains what the code ne

It doesn't. Half of the book is not even in C (The book is half java (simpler interpreter), half C (bytecode compiler + VM)). The book explains what the code needs to do very very clearly, so even without looking at the C code you would gain a lot of value.