Towards a compiler front-end for Ada

  • Authors:
  • Gerhard Goos;Georg Winterstein

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIGPLAN '80 Proceedings of the ACM-SIGPLAN symposium on The ADA programming language
  • Year:
  • 1980

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Abstract

This paper discusses the current development of a compiler front-end for Ada at the University of Karlsruhe. The front-end is independent of the target-machine and will compile Ada into an intermediate language AIDA, essentially an attributed structure tree. The front-end is written in its own language using Ada-0 and LIS as preliminary compilers for the bootstrap. The compiler in its present form relies heavily on the formal definition of Ada which is under development at CII and IRIA.