From: schizophonic@iol.it
Subject: Re: How is an ADA compiler done?
Date: 1996/10/29
Date: 1996-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <555e28$v6c@mikasa.iol.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.846423013@merv
dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:
>Are atrtibute grammars used? Yes by one or two compilers, No by most. I don't
>think it is a particularly helpful formalism. At least one commercial compiler,
>the DDCI compiler does, as far as I know use this approach, but on the other
>hand, it is much later than expected, so it is certainly not a demonstration
>that this technique is specially effective (it is also not a demonstraion
>to the contrary either, there are MANY things that can make compilers later
>than hoped, as all of us in the business know well!)
Sounds strange; in my teacher's opinion, nowadays about the 50% of
commercial compilers are based on attribute grammars; in facts the
formalism was developed from the state of the art in the compiler's
algorithm (at least, the state of the art when Knuth started his
work). Is Ada (now I wrote it exactly) an exception, or is my teacher
wrong?
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-26 0:00 How is an ADA compiler done? schizophonic
1996-10-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-29 0:00 ` schizophonic [this message]
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-08 0:00 ` calling ADA from C EDSTAM Mikael
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-30 0:00 ` How is an ADA compiler done? Larry Kilgallen
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