Re: code generation

"Ira D. Baxter" <idbaxter@semdesigns.com>
28 Jan 2002 01:04:31 -0500

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From: "Ira D. Baxter" <idbaxter@semdesigns.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 28 Jan 2002 01:04:31 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 02-01-112
Keywords: code, tools
Posted-Date: 28 Jan 2002 01:04:31 EST

You want to know about program transformation systems. See
www.program-transformation.org for general background.


With such tools, you can code maps between source-language syntax
patterns, and target-language-syntax patterns as primitive translation
steps. You typically need all the other machinery of a compiler
(lexer, parser, name/type resolver, analysis engines) etc. to enable
the translation rules to be triggered under the right circumstances.


You can see slides about porting (translating software) this way at
http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/DMS/Porting/Porting_files/frame.htm.
These slides show some sample transforms used to translate JOVIAL to
C.


--
Ira D. Baxter, Ph.D. CTO Semantic Designs, Inc.
http://www.semdesigns.com




<malal884@student.liu.se> wrote
> We are working on our master thesis about code generation. We are
> searching for a code generation method. The method should be general
> and translate from one high level language to another high level
> language.


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