Re: Are there "compiler generators"?

From	"minf...@arcor.de" <minforth@arcor.de>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Are there "compiler generators"?
Date	2022-06-07 07:22 -0700
Organization	Compilers Central
Message-ID	<22-06-017@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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Roger L Costello schrieb am Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2022 um 19:24:49 UTC+2:
> So a compiler can be generated declaratively by using a set of
> declarative generator tools, e.g., Flex for lexical analysis, Bison
> for syntax/semantic analysis, and Iburg for code generation.
>
> Has anyone used this combination of tools to create a whole compiler?

This is a hot AI research field. 'Deep compilers' touch topics like
least cost parsing and optimization of other compilation steps.
But AFAIU there is no such holistic thing like automatic complete
compiler construction a la
Compiler = f (grammar, software-infrastructure, target-hardware)

Some state of the art overview:
https://github.com/zwang4/awesome-machine-learning-in-compilers

OTOH code generators based on graphical input are already "old hats".

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Re: Are there "compiler generators"? Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> - 2022-06-01 11:23 +0000
  Re: Are there "compiler generators"? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2022-06-01 18:05 +0000
  Re: Are there "compiler generators"? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2022-06-01 14:02 -0700
  Re: Are there "compiler generators"? "minf...@arcor.de" <minforth@arcor.de> - 2022-06-07 07:22 -0700
    Re: Are there "compiler generators"? Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2022-06-07 18:34 +0000

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