Re: Help needed: Code generation for CASE/SWITCH statements

Jakob (jakob@iar_.se) wrote:


: I would like to know if anybody knows of any references (articles,
: books, online sources) where information can be found about how to
: select implementation strategies for switch statements (case for Ada
: and Pascal).


I had to do this search for a project that was never funded. Here are
some references. The method used in LCC is derived from KanP94. To
look at code you could by a copy of Fraser and Hanson's book ("LCC, A
Retargetable Compiler for ANSI C") or visit the LCC website.


Steve Walk




%A Sampath Kannan
%A Todd A. Proebsting
%T "Correction to 'Producing Good Code for the Case Statement'"
%J Software - Practice & Experience
%D 1994
%M February
%K Case Statement


%A Robert Bernstein
%T "Producing Good code for the Case Statement"
%J Software - Practice & Experience
%V 15
%N 10
%M October
%D 1985
%P 1021-1024
%K Case Statement


%A John L. Hennessy
%A Noah Mendelsohn
%T "Compilation of the Pascal Case Statement"
%J Software - Practice and Experience
%V 12
%N 9
%M September
%D 1982
%P 879-882
%K PASCAL
%K Case Statement


%A A. Sale
%T "The Implementation of Case Statements in PACAL"
%J Software - Practice & Experience
%V 11
%D 1981
%P 929-942
%K Case Statement


%A D. A. Spuler
%T "Compiler Code Generation for Multiway Branch Statements
                as a Static Search Problem"
%G Technical Report 94/03
%M January
%D 1994
%I Department of Computer Science, James Cook University, Australia
%K Case Statement
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