NDLI: A truly generative semantics-directed compiler generator

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Author	Giegerich, Robert Wilhelm, Reinhard Möncke, Ulrich Ganzinger, Harald
Abstract	This paper describes semantic processing in the compiler generating system MUG2. MUG2 accepts high-level descriptions of the semantics of a programming language including full runtime semantics, data flow analysis, and optimizing transformations. This distinguishes MUG2 from systems such as YACC [Joh75], HLP [HLP78], PQCC [PQC79], or its own former version [GRW77] with respect to expressive power and convenience. In this respect, MUG2 comes close to semantics-directed systems such as [Mos76], [JoS80], [Set81], [Pau82]. In contrast to these, MUG2 is not a universal translator system where program independent semantic properties have to be evaluated at compilation time. The description concepts of MUG2 allow a far reaching separation of language vs. program dependent semantics, thus constituting a truly generative approach to semantics-directed compiler generation.
Starting Page	172
Ending Page	184
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0897910745
DOI	10.1145/800230.806993
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1982-06-23
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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A truly generative semantics-directed compiler generator