Re: code generator generators?

shuksan!scott@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Scott Moody)
9 Sep 91 21:41:21 GMT

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From: shuksan!scott@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Scott Moody)
Summary: another reference
Keywords: code, design, bibiography
Organization: The Boeing Co., MMST, Seattle, Wa.
References: 91-09-012
Date: 9 Sep 91 21:41:21 GMT



In article 91-09-012, mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Michael Gschwind - EECS) writes:
> What's the current state of research on code generator generators? While the
> front end side seems to be fairly well automated by now, back end
> generation still seems to be an unresolved issue.


I just xeroxed a paper from SIGPLAN'88 conference proceedings titled:


      "Automatic Generation of Fast Optimizing Code Generators"


              Christopher Fraser - AT&T
              Alan Wendt - U of Arizona


>From the abstract: "This paper describes a system that accepts
compact specifications of an intermediate code and target machine and
produces program code for an intergrated code generator and peephole
optimizer. A compiler for most of C uses this package. It emits code
comparable to pcc1's, but it runs over five times faster on
preliminary benchmarks. This compiler also runs over twice as fast as
a version of pcc2 with a hand-coded, VAX-specific code generator"
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Scott Moody, scott@shuksan.boeing.com, uunet!bcstec!shuksan!scott
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