Compiler Generators: What They Can Do, What They Might Do, and What They Will Probably Never Do - Couverture rigide

Tofte, Mads

 
9783540514718: Compiler Generators: What They Can Do, What They Might Do, and What They Will Probably Never Do
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ISBN 10 : 3540514716 ISBN 13 : 9783540514718
Editeur : Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1990

Synopsis

The OrIgIn of this monograph is a course entitled "Semantics- directed Compiler Generation" which Professor Neil D. Jones gave in 1982 at Copenhagen University, where I was a student at the time. In this course, he described a compiler generator, called CERES, which he was developing. I immediately felt attracted to the unusual combination of mathematical reasoning about com- pilers and the small intricate building blocks that made up the running system. As I came to understand the system I discovered that within the existing mathematical framework one could express compiler generation as a special case of compilation; this led to a specification of a compiler generator which was bootstrapped on itself resulting in a machine-generated compiler generator. The purpose of this monograph is to describe the CERES system we produced in 1983-84 and compare it with other systems, includ- ing more recent ones. Also, it is as relevant today as it was then to discuss the role of compiler generators as an aid in the design and implementation of programming languages; this I do in Chap. 5. This monograph is a strongly revised version of the cando scient.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This monograph is concerned with the problem of getting computers to transform formal language definitions into compilers. Its purpose is to demonstrate how certain simple theoretical ideas can be used to generate compilers and even compiler generators. As the title suggests, a realistic assessment of the relationship between the complexity of realistic compilation and the relative simplicity studied in theoretical work is attempted. The monograph contains an overview of existing compiler generators. The Ceres '83 compiler generator, developed by Neil D. Jones and the author, is described in detail. The Ceres system is based on the idea of composing language definitions and it serves as an example of a powerful novel "bootstrapping" technique by which one can generate compiler generators as well as compilers by considering a compiler generator to be, in a sense which is made mathematically precise, a special kind of compiler. The core of the Ceres system is a two-page-long machine generated compiler generator. The approach uses ideas from denotational semantics and many-sorted algebra and connects them with novel ideas about how to treat programs and language definitions as data. Considerable effort has been made to present the necessary theory in a manner suitable for readers who have some practical experience but not necessarily a theoretical background in semantics.

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Éditeur
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Date d'édition
1990
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3540514716
ISBN 13 
9783540514718
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Nombre de pages
147
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ISBN 10 :  0387514716 ISBN 13 :  9780387514710
Editeur : Springer Verlag, 1990
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