Effective compiler generation by architecture description

  • Authors:
  • Stefan Farfeleder;Andreas Krall;Edwin Steiner;Florian Brandner

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Universität Wien;Technische Universität Wien;Technische Universität Wien;Technische Universität Wien

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED conference on Language, compilers, and tool support for embedded systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Embedded systems have an extremely short time to market and therefore require easily retargetable compilers. Architecture description languages (ADLs) provide a single concise architecture specification for the generation of hardware, instruction set simulators and compilers. In this article, we present an ADL for compiler generation. From a specification, we can derive an optimized tree pattern matching instruction selector, a register allocator and an instruction scheduler. Compared to a hand-crafted back end, the generated compiler produces smaller and faster code.The ADL is rich enough that other tools, such as assemblers, linkers, simulators and documentation, can all be obtained from a single specification.