Compilers: principles, techniques, and tools
Compilers: principles, techniques, and tools
Program analysis and code generation in an APL/370 compiler
IBM Journal of Research and Development
An APL compiler
APL: The Language and Its Usage
APL: The Language and Its Usage
Compile time syntax analysis of APL programs
APL '81 Proceedings of the international conference on APL
Results from a Parallel MATLAB Compiler
IPPS '98 Proceedings of the 12th. International Parallel Processing Symposium on International Parallel Processing Symposium
Compiler techniques for matlab programs
Compiler techniques for matlab programs
A translator system for the MATLAB language: Research Articles
Software—Practice & Experience
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In recent times, the MATLAB language has emerged as a popular alternative for programming in diverse application domains such as signal processing and meteorology. The language has a powerful array syntax with a large set of pre-defined operators and functions that operate on arrays or array sections, making it an ideal candidate for applications involving substantial array-based processing.Yet, for all the programming convenience that the language offers, designing a parser and scanner capable of mimicking the language's syntax has proven to be an acutely difficult task. The language has many context-sensitive constructions, and though numerous front-end implementations of MATLAB and MATLAB-like languages exist, not much has been discussed regarding the efficient compile-time parsing of such languages or how its syntax impacts the parsing process.In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a compiler front-end for the MATLAB language. We discuss in detail both the indigenously designed grammar responsible for syntax analysis as well as the lexical specification that complements the grammar. In the course of our attempts to emulate MATLAB's syntax, we were able to unravel certain key issues relating to its syntax, such as the complications arising in parsing command-form function invocations within a compile-time environment, the context-sensitive interpretation of the single quote character, and the translation of white space within matrices into element separators.The front-end effects a conversion of the original source to an intermediate form in which statements are represented as abstract syntax trees and the flow of control between statements by a control-flow graph. All subsequent compiler passes work on this intermediate representation.The front-end was designed and implemented as part of the MATCH project, which addresses the translation of a MATLAB program by a compiler onto a heterogeneous target consisting of embedded and commerical-off-the-shelf processors.