Industrial strength compiler construction with equations

  • Authors:
  • Lutz H. Hamel

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGPLAN Notices
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

Industrial strength compilers need not only be robust and efficient but also understandable, maintainable, and extensible. To make compilers more manageable there has been a strong trend towards the high-level specification of the different phases of the compilation process. However, the high-level specification of one phase - the semantic analysis - has not been very successful in terms of production quality standards. In this paper we propose the use of a language based on equations for the specification of the semantic analysis phase of compilers.