Retargetable cross compilation techniques: comparison and analysis of GCC and Zephyr

Authors:
Dai Guilan;Tian Jinlan;Zhang Suqin;Jiang Weidu;Dai Jun
Affiliations:
Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China
Venue:
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Year:
2002

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Abstract

Both GCC and Zephyr are representative complier infrastructures. The paper explores the basic questions that need to be resolved to develop compilers for the support of multiple source languages and targets analyses and compares their architectures and key retargetable cross compilation techniques, summarizes the merits and shortcomings, respectively, and draws a conclusion that the Zephyr infrastructure has the advantage over GCC to an extent.