Re: Bootstrapping theory?

Greg Morrisett <jgm@CS.Cornell.EDU>
5 Sep 1996 23:51:20 -0400

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From: Greg Morrisett <jgm@CS.Cornell.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 5 Sep 1996 23:51:20 -0400
Organization: Cornell University
References: 96-09-014
Keywords: design

Kjetil Valstadsve wrote:
> Does anyone have pointers to literature describing the process and
> idea of writing a bootstrapped compiler? I've read the chapter in the
> Dragon.


Andrew Appel had a paper in Transactions on Programming
Languages and Systems, called something like: "Axiomatic
Bootstrapping". It's very interesting, especially when you
consider a compiler embedded in an interactive system.


An earlier draft of the paper appears as a Princeton tech
report:


http://ncstrl.cs.princeton.edu:80/Document/PRINCETONCS:TR-451-94




-Greg Morrisett


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