Compilers in six hours

ssimmons@convex.com (Steve Simmons)
Thu, 19 May 1994 10:48:55 GMT

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From: ssimmons@convex.com (Steve Simmons)
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Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 10:48:55 GMT

> 6. Actually doing a good job of machine-language generation nowadays is
> probably nasty enough to justify a course in itself.


BTW... Out of a class of 39 grad students....


12 generated code assembly code (their choice of SPARC, 68000, 8086)
16 generated C code
11 did not complete the project


Obviously, the robustness and quality of the generated code was minimal
but it did work.


Thank you.


Steve Simmons
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