Eff cient 3-address code in C? (was Re: Three Address Code)

smitha_chandran@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> I would like to know if Three Address Code can be implemented in some
> way other then quadruple or triples.


"Rainer Leupers" <leupers@ls12.cs.uni-dortmund.de> wrote in message
> In our C compiler platform LANCE, the three address code intermediate
> representation (IR) is represented in the form of low-level C
> statements.
> The advantage of this is that the IR can be compiled
> just like the original C source. This feature can be
> used for validation of the C frontend and
> the IR optimization passes.
>
> I attach a small example that illustrates the translation
> from C code to three address code.


Now *I* have a question:


I've tried this in the past, but have not been terribly impressed with
the quality (or efficiency) of the generated machine code. This was
8+ years ago. Does anybody have any experience with the practicality
of using C as a 3-address code target?


I do like the idea of using it to _debug_ 3-address code generation, though.
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