Re: Looking for a compiler for research work

Manu Tandon <mtandon@menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu> wrote:
>>I am looking for a compiler to do some optimisation research. I have
>>read the free compilers list. I wanted to know what compiler is easy /
>>easier to hook into.


Seth LaForge <sethml@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>Check out the Stanford SUIF project: http://suif.stanford.edu/. SUIF
>(Stanford Universal Intermediate Format) is a specification of an
>intermediate format on disk, C and Fortran front-ends, MIPS and C
>back-ends, a C++ library for reading, writing, and manipulating the
>intermediate instructions, and a bunch of optimizers. The idea is
>that you can write your optimizer as an independent program which
>reads code in intermediate form and writes optimized code in
>intermediate form. The SUIF group is mostly using it for researching
>automatic parallelization.


Also check out the Zephyr effort at : http://www.cs.virginia.edu/zephyr.


The SUIF and Zephyr efforts are being funded as part of a National
Compiler Infrastructure project whose purpose is to provide plug `n
play compiler components that can be used to perform research in
compilation technology. The overall project has just gotten under
way, but both components (SUIF and Zephyr) have existing parts that
are usable today. The points of contact are: Monica Lam
(lam@stanford.edu) and Jack Davidson (jwd@cs.virginia.edu).


You might also want to check out the PLDI '97 homepage where an
announcement on this project is made for a BOF at PLDI. (
http://cs-www.bu.edu/pub/pldi97)


- Lauren
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Lauren L. Smith
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