Re: What's lacking: a good intermediate form

Robbert Haarman <comp.lang.misc@inglorion.net>
Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:09:37 +0100

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From: Robbert Haarman <comp.lang.misc@inglorion.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:09:37 +0100
Organization: Wanadoo
References: 09-02-132 09-02-136 09-02-144 09-03-003 09-03-014 <fRhrl.13260$8_3.4266@flpi147.ffdc.sbc.com> 09-03-020 09-03-025
Keywords: optimize, analysis
Posted-Date: 06 Mar 2009 21:21:16 EST

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 02:43:00PM -0600, Tony wrote:
>
> Note that I said "intermediate form" rather than "intermediate
> language". "Intermediate representation" (IR) is probably more common
> than "intermediate form" though. An intermediate language is generated
> code and a bit farther down the line than the IR I was concerned with,
> which is probably an AST.


Fair enough. But then again, an intermediate language is just an
external representation of an intermediate form. How things are
represented in a running program is something I've always considered to
be up to the implementer. So what we're left with is the semantics: the
constructs and what they mean. That is something an intermediate form
and an intermediate language have in common.


Regards,


Bob


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