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Handling context-sensitive syntactic issues in the design of a front-end for a MATLAB compiler

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Choudhary, Alok Kanhere, Abhay Shenoy, U. Nagaraj Banerjee, Prithviraj Joisha, Pramod G.
Abstract	In recent times, the MATLAB language has emerged as a popular alternative for programming in diverse application domains such as signal processing and meteorology. The language has a powerful array syntax with a large set of pre-defined operators and functions that operate on arrays or array sections, making it an ideal candidate for applications involving substantial array-based processing.Yet, for all the programming convenience that the language offers, designing a parser and scanner capable of mimicking the language's syntax has proven to be an acutely difficult task. The language has many context-sensitive constructions, and though numerous front-end implementations of MATLAB and MATLAB-like languages exist, not much has been discussed regarding the efficient compile-time parsing of such languages or how its syntax impacts the parsing process.In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a compiler front-end for the MATLAB language. We discuss in detail both the indigenously designed grammar responsible for syntax analysis as well as the lexical specification that complements the grammar. In the course of our attempts to emulate MATLAB's syntax, we were able to unravel certain key issues relating to its syntax, such as the complications arising in parsing command-form function invocations within a compile-time environment, the context-sensitive interpretation of the single quote character, and the translation of white space within matrices into element separators.The front-end effects a conversion of the original source to an intermediate form in which statements are represented as abstract syntax trees and the flow of control between statements by a control-flow graph. All subsequent compiler passes work on this intermediate representation.The front-end was designed and implemented as part of the MATCH project, which addresses the translation of a MATLAB program by a compiler onto a heterogeneous target consisting of embedded and commerical-off-the-shelf processors.
Starting Page	27
Ending Page	40
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1581131828
DOI	10.1145/570475.969784
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2000-07-24
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Syntax analysis for matlab Control constructs Command-form function invocations Assignments Single quote character Matrices Colon expressions
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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