David Broman
Peter Fritzson
Görel Hedin
ABSTRACT
Operational semantics and attribute grammars are examples of formalisms that can be used for generating compilers. We are interested in finding similarities and differences in how these approaches are applied to complex languages, and for generating compilers of such maturity that they have users in industry.
As a specific case, we present a comparative analysis of two compilers for Modelica, a language for physical modeling, and which contains numerous compilation challenges. The two compilers are OpenModelica, which is based on big-step operational semantics, and JModelica.org, which is based on reference attribute grammars.
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Digital Library
- D. Broman, P. Fritzson, and S. Furic. Types in the Modelica Language. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Modelica Conference, pages 303--315, Vienna, Austria, 2006.Google Scholar
- D. Broman, P. Fritzson, G. Hedin, and J. Åkesson. A comparison of metacompilation approaches to implementing Modelica. Technical Report 1404-1200 Report 97, Dept. of Computer Science, Lund University, Sweden, 2011.Google Scholar
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- A comparison of two metacompilation approaches to implementing a complex domain-specific language
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