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.
Keyword: compiler generation,code generation,architecture description language
Keyword: compiler generation,code generation,architecture description language
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Languages, Compilers, Tools, and Theory for Embedded Systems |
Publisher | ACM USA www.acm.org/publications |
Publication date | 2006 |
Pages | 145-152 |
ISBN (Print) | 15-95-93362-x |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2006 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 2006 conference on Language, compilers, and tool support for embedded systems - Ottawa, Canada Duration: 14 Jul 2006 → 16 Jul 2006 |
Conference
Conference | 2006 conference on Language, compilers, and tool support for embedded systems |
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Country/Territory | Canada |
City | Ottawa |
Period | 14/07/2006 → 16/07/2006 |
Other | 2006 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED conference |