An overview of the PL.8 compiler

Authors:
Marc Auslander;Martin Hopkins
Affiliations:
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Venue:
ACM SIGPLAN Notices - Best of PLDI 1979-1999
Year:
2004

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Abstract

The PL.8 compiler accepts multiple source languages and produces high quality object code for several different machines. The strategy used is to first do a simple translation of the source program to a low level intermediate language. Global optimization and register allocation are then used to improve code rather than relying on special case code selection.