Summary
The back end of a compiler performs machine-dependent tasks and low-level optimisations that are laborious to implement and difficult to debug. In addition, in languages that require run-time services such as garbage collection, the back end must interface with the run-time system to provide those services. The net result is that building a compiler back end entails a high implementation cost. In this dissertation I describe reusable code generation infrastructure that enables the construction of a complete programming language implementation (compiler and run-time system) with reduced effort. The infrastructure consists of a portable intermediate language, a compiler for this language and a low-level run-time system. I provide an implementation of this system and I show that it can support a variety of source programming languages, it reduces the overall eort required to implement a programming language, it can capture and retain information necessary to support run-time services and optimisations, and it produces efficient code.
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- Publication Date:2002
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- Degree:Ph.D.
- University:University of Glasgow
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- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2002
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- ethos:495402
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