Denotational semantics as a specification of code generators

  • Authors:
  • Martin R. Raskovsky

  • Affiliations:
  • Essex University, Department Of Computing Science

  • Venue:
  • SIGPLAN '82 Proceedings of the 1982 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

We describe the automatic generation - from the formal denotational semantic specification - of an efficient compiler's code generation phase, producing efficient code for real machines. The method has been succesfully implemented and tested with languages as complex as GEDANKEN!