Once you can read some C, I'd recommend reading over another bytecode interpreter, like mawk (Mike's AWK): http://invisible-island.net/mawk/ http://invisible-is

Once you can read some C, I'd recommend reading over another bytecode interpreter, like mawk (Mike's AWK): http://invisible-island.net/mawk/ http://invisible-island.net/mawk/ . Another good read is the TinyCC compiler (originally by Fabrice Bellard, who did QEMU among other things): http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/tinycc http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/tinycc . It's a small, mostly readable, fully functional C compiler.