Re: generic intermediate optimization library

Peter Rickwood <peterr@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> wrote in message news:01-09-088...
> Is anyone aware of any existing libraries/API's which do optimization
> on a well-defined, documented, retargetable intermediate language?
>
> So, for example, a library that allows you to pass in (say) the root
> node of an expression tree, and performs specified optimizations on
> that tree, outputting an optimized syntax tree in the same
> intermediate language...
>
> I realize that open-source compilers of course have optimizing code,
> but I'm wondering how modular this code is (ie. how easily it can be
> stripped out and used in isolation)....


Yep gcc, you can hack the libs. I did it once, don't know how it
evolved but there was no real documentation.


Give a try to C--, it's a kind of general purpose optimizing assembly
. There is an equivalent system build in the ML comunity,don't remeber
the name.


Give a try also to system like trafola...


But those work on a kind of assembly language (or three adress code).
There a research projects on building compiling environements. Try a
look at smart-tools it's still not in a state where it can be used for
anything usefull, but it has a good basis. And there are some
researchs close to be released, about tree optimizations systems.


Good luck

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