A portable compiler: theory and practice
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Overview of the amsterdam compiler kit
The tool kit consists of eight components:
• The preprocessor • The front ends • The peephole optimizer • The global optimizer • The back end • The target machine optimizer • The universal assembler/linker • The utility package
The preprocessor
- extend all the program- ming languages by adding certain generally useful facilities to them in a uniform way. One of these is a simple macro system,
- Another useful facility provided by the preprocessor is the ability to include compile-time libraries.
- A third feature of the preprocessor is conditional compila- tion.
The front ends
- All front ends, independent of the language being compiled, produce a common intermediate code called EM, which is the assembly language for a simple stack machine. The EM machine is based on a memory architecture containing a stack for local variables, a (static) data area for variables de- clared in the outermost block and global to the whole pro- gram, and a heap for dynamic data structures.