Architecture description languages for compilers?

I'm planning on doing some research in optimization and code generation
next quarter. One of the topics I'm interested in is machine
descriptions--some vanilla way to describe the architecture of a machine
for purposes of code generation. (Numbers of registers, addressing modes,
etc.)


I'd appreciate pointers to any previous work--textbooks, papers, existing
code, etc.
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Todd Eigenschink (eigenstr@CS.Rose-Hulman.Edu)
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN
[There have been lots of architecture description languages over the years.
Whether any of them can be used to mechanically generate a compiler is
another question. I suspect they'd be more useful for validation. -John]
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