This article walks through how a compiler turns human‑readable source code into binary machine instructions, covering tokenization, parsing, abstract syntax tree construction, code generation, optimization, and linking, while highlighting the role of LLVM as a portable backend.
The article presents a technique for static function hooking in Objective‑C by writing a custom LLVM Pass that modifies the intermediate representation during compilation to inject stub calls at chosen points inside a function, and details the required LLVM setup, Pass implementation, Clang integration, and Xcode configuration.
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of Webpack's core architecture, explaining its three-phase workflow (initialization, building, and generation), plugin system, and module handling mechanisms to help developers understand the underlying principles of this static module bundler.
