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| From | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c, comp.compilers |
| Subject | Re: 40 year old compilers |
| Date | 2013-06-05 16:22 +0000 |
| Organization | Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien |
| Message-ID | <13-06-006@comp.compilers> (permalink) |
| References | <13-06-004@comp.compilers> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
>So, I wonder (cross post replies) about favorite 40 year old compiler
>books, especially if written using C-like languages
I like [wulf+75]; however, that's mostly about optimizing, and I don't
think that C compilers of that time had serious ambitions in that
direction.
Given that C compilers from 1973 came from Bell Labs, and Al Aho
worked at Bell Labs, the books he coauthored around that time might
fit the bill.
@Book{wulf+75,
author = {William Wulf and Richard K. Johnsson and Charles
B. Weinstock and Steven O. Hobbs and Charles M. Geschke},
title = {The Design of an Optimizing Compiler},
publisher = {Elsvier},
year = {1975},
isbn = {0-444-0164-6},
annote = {Describes a complete Bliss/11 compiler for the
PDP-11. It uses some interesting techniques: it
uses a (hand-constructed) tree parsing automaton for
parts of the code selection (Section~3.4); it
optimizes the use of unary complement operators
(Section~3.3); it uses a smart scheme to represent
a conservative approximation of the lifetime of
variables in constant space and uses that for
register allocation (Sections~4.1.3 and~4.3).}
}
- anton
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M. Anton Ertl
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http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/
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40 year old compilers glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2013-06-03 00:14 +0000
Re: 40 year old compilers anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-06-05 16:22 +0000
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