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Multi-language, multi-target compiler development: Evolution of the Gardens Point compiler project

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Modular Programming Languages (JMLC 1997)

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Abstract

The Gardens Point project started in 1987 as an attempt to make Modula-2 available on a variety of 32-bit Unix platforms. Since that time, it has evolved into a flexible platform for research into compiler construction and language implementation. Gardens point compilers are available on about a dozen platforms, and are mostly freeware.

Currently, the gardens point infrastructure is used for a variety of research projects in areas such as code selection, global optimization, register allocation, and exception handling. There are also a variety of language research issues which are being pursued by the group.

This paper sets out a brief history of the project, and describes the insights which have come from the implementation of a variety of languages on most of the major current computer architectures.

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Gough, K.J. (1997). Multi-language, multi-target compiler development: Evolution of the Gardens Point compiler project. In: Mössenböck, H. (eds) Modular Programming Languages. JMLC 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1204. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62599-2_28

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