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| Best language for intermediate representation wienczny@web.de (Stephan Wienczny) (2004-02-12) |
| Re: Best language for intermediate representation s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl (2004-02-13) |
| Re: Best language for intermediate representation basile-news@starynkevitch.net (Basile Starynkevitch \[news\]) (2004-02-13) |
| Re: Best language for intermediate representation jle@forest.owlnet.rice.edu (2004-02-26) |
| From: | jle@forest.owlnet.rice.edu (Jason Lee Eckhardt) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | 26 Feb 2004 01:04:19 -0500 |
| Organization: | Rice University, Houston, TX |
| References: | 04-02-112 04-02-126 |
| Keywords: | analysis, design |
| Posted-Date: | 26 Feb 2004 01:04:19 EST |
Steven Bosscher <s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl> wrote:
>Stephan Wienczny <wienczny@web.de> wrote
>> what is the best intermediate language currently freely available?
>
>"The best" depends on what you want to do with it...
>
>One very well documented IR is WHIRL, which is the IR of
>the Open64 compiler, see open64.sourceforge.net. One of
>its many nice features is that it really is a family of
>representations, which allows you to gradually lower from
>a very high level representation to an almost-machine-code
>representation.
>
>Gr.
>Steven
In addition to what Steven suggested, you might also consider
LLVM (http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu). This is also a very well
documented and powerful IR. Moreover, unlike Open64, the
system built on top of it (compiler, dynamic optimizer, VM, etc)
is also well documented with a simple, hygienic design.
jason.
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