| An Algebraic Approach to Compiler Design Contributor(s): Sampaio, Augusto (Author) |
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ISBN: 9810223919 ISBN-13: 9789810223915 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Programming Languages - General - Computers | Computer Science - Computers | Software Development & Engineering - General |
| Dewey: 005.453 |
| Series: Amast Computing |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 8.6" (0.90 lbs) 204 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book investigates the design of compilers for procedural languages, based on the algebraic laws which these languages satisfy. The particular strategy adopted is to reduce an arbitrary source program to a general normal form, capable of representing an arbitrary target machine. This is achieved by a series of normal form reduction theorems which are proved algebraically from the more basic laws. The normal form and the related reduction theorems can then be instantiated to design compilers for distinct target machines. This constitutes the main novelty of the author's approach to compilation, together with the fact that the entire process is formalised within a single and uniform semantic framework of a procedural language and its algberaic laws. Furthermore, by mechanising the approach using the OBJ3 term rewriting system it is shown that a prototype compiler is developed as a byproduct of its own proof of correctness. |