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Retargetable cross compilation techniques: comparison and analysis of GCC and Zephyr

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 37, Issue 6

Pages 38 - 44

https://doi.org/10.1145/571727.571734

Published: 02 June 2002 Publication History

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Both GCC and Zephyr are representative complier infrastructures. The paper explores the basic questions that need to be resolved to develop compilers for the support of multiple source languages and targets analyses and compares their architectures and key retargetable cross compilation techniques, summarizes the merits and shortcomings, respectively, and draws a conclusion that the Zephyr infrastructure has the advantage over GCC to an extent.

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Retargetable cross compilation techniques: comparison and analysis of GCC and Zephyr
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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 37, Issue 6

June 2002

77 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/571727

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Association for Computing Machinery

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