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An overview of the PL.8 compiler

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Marc Auslander,

Martin HopkinsAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Issue 6

Pages 22 - 31

https://doi.org/10.1145/872726.806977

Published: 01 June 1982 Publication History

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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.

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1. Software and its engineering
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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 17, Issue 6

Proceedings of the 1982 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction

June 1982

347 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/872726

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SIGPLAN '82: Proceedings of the 1982 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction
June 1982
357 pages
ISBN:0897910745
DOI:10.1145/800230
Chairmen:
John R. White,
Frances E. Allen

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Association for Computing Machinery

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