A normal form for compiler testing

  • Authors:
  • Hanan Samet

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1977 symposium on Artificial intelligence and programming languages
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

A formalism is presented for obtaining a normal form to be used in representing programs for compiler testing. Examples are used to motivate the features that must be considered when developing such a formalism. It is particularly suitable for heuristically optimized code and has been successfully used in a system for proving that programs written in a subset of LISP are correctly translated to assembly language.