Re: Native Code Generation from Abstract Stack Machine

"Kevin Albrecht" <kevin@albrecht.net> writes:


> I am looking for research or implementations on how to generate
> efficient machine code from abstract stack machines. It seems like
> most resources on machine code generation from intermediate languages
> focuses on translation from register-based intermediate languages.
>
> -- Kevin
> [I suspect the advice is turn it into abstract register code, then
> optimize. Optimizing stack code is a pain because of all of the
> bookkeeping you have to do for common subexpressions. -John]


I assume there are standard techniques for turning stack machine code
into abstract register code. Are there any good references where I can
read about them?


-Peter


--
Peter Seibel peter@javamonkey.com
[The simplest way is to treat the registers as a stack and run through
each basic block assigning values to registers. -John]

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