Teaching compiler courses

I am teaching an undergraduate compiler writing course and I would like
some pointers as to what target language to use for the students'
compilers.


Our source language is a subset of Pascal. We will be implementing the
compilers in C on Sun workstations.


I've been thinking of using the USCD P-code machine for the target
language.


Is this a good idea?


What do other people use when teaching compiler courses?


Does anyone know where I can get the source for a P-code interpreter that
will run on SUNOS? (or source for other reasonable machine interpreters?)


Thanks a lot.


Please send responses to:


jak@gandalf.umcs.maine.edu


Jim Kadin
[I would think that a target machine with registers would be more realistic
for most purposes. There are a few simulators for real machines such as
James Larus' SPIM. See message 90-09-033. -John]
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