• computer science, a compiler-compiler or compiler generator is a programming tool that creates a parser, interpreter, or compiler from some form of formal...
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  • cross-compiler itself runs. A bootstrap compiler is often a temporary compiler, used for compiling a more permanent or better optimised compiler for a...
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  • single locale. Uses a GCC Front End. The EDGE C/C++ compiler is based on the Microtec C/C++ compiler. Last Open64 v5.0 uses GCC 4.2 as its Front End, which...
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    executable programs. The Production Quality Compiler-Compiler, in the late 1970s, introduced the principles of compiler organization that are still widely used...
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  • Bytecode (redirect from Byte-compiler)
    computing offers a bytecode compiler through the compiler package, now standard with R version 2.13.0. It is possible to compile this version of R so that...
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    are compiled ahead of time and stored as machine independent code, which is then linked at run-time and executed by an interpreter and/or compiler (for...
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    architectures when using a JIT compiler. In the face of the code-verified JVM architecture, it makes no difference to a JIT compiler whether it gets named imaginary...
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  • Yacc (Yet Another Compiler-Compiler) is a computer program for the Unix operating system developed by Stephen C. Johnson. It is a lookahead left-to-right...
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    .NET Compiler Platform, also known by its codename Roslyn, is a set of open-source compilers and code analysis APIs for C# and Visual Basic (VB.NET) languages...
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  • the cross compiler (or cross assembler when working with assembly language). A cross compiler allows source code on one platform to be compiled for a different...
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  • example, a compiler that runs on a PC but generates code that runs on Android devices is a cross compiler. A cross compiler is useful to compile code for...
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  • time it takes to compile a program is usually referred to as compilation time. Most compilers have at least the following compiler phases (which therefore...
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  • An optimizing compiler is a compiler designed to generate code that is optimized in aspects such as minimizing program execution time, memory usage, storage...
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    Go (programming language) (category Free and open source compilers)
    GCC-based Go compiler; later extended to also support LLVM, providing an LLVM-based Go compiler called gollvm. A third-party source-to-source compiler, GopherJS...
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  • double-compiling. The method requires a different compiler and the source code of the compiler-under-test. That source, compiled with both compilers, results...
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  • that combine an AOT (ahead-of-time) compiler with either a JIT compiler (Excelsior JET) or interpreter (GNU Compiler for Java). JIT compilation may not...
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  • A source-to-source translator, source-to-source compiler (S2S compiler), transcompiler, or transpiler is a type of translator that takes the source code...
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    the C and C++ compilers. As well as being the official compiler of the GNU operating system, GCC has been adopted as the standard compiler by many other...
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  • producing a self-compiling compiler – that is, a compiler (or assembler) written in the source programming language that it intends to compile. An initial...
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  • JavaCC (Java Compiler Compiler) is an open-source parser generator and lexical analyzer generator written in the Java programming language. JavaCC is...
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  • needs to change from target to target. (For more information on compiler design, see Compiler.) The input to the code generator typically consists of a parse...
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  • of the language and may vary from compiler to compiler. They can be processed by a preprocessor to specify compiler behavior, or function as a form of...
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    computer by an innovative 63-phase compiler that ran entirely in its core memory of only 8000 (six-bit) characters. The compiler could be run from tape, or from...
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  • correctly inferred by the compiler. Static typing usually results in compiled code that executes faster. When the compiler knows the exact data types...
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    specifically for another compiler rather than standard-compliant C or C++ will often compile with the Watcom compiler. The compiler supports C89/C90 standards...
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  • incremental compiler, developed by Steven P. Reiss in the early 1980s. GNU Compiler Collection has branched off its development with the IncrementalCompiler project...
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  • profile as a JIT compiler would do. Computer programming portal asm.js compiler (JavaScript) Bartok (CIL) Excelsior JET (Java) GNU Compiler for Java IL2CPU...
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  • Ullman about compiler construction for programming languages. First published in 1986, it is widely regarded as the classic definitive compiler technology...
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  • generate code for more than one computing platform. A retargetable compiler is a compiler that has been designed to be relatively easy to modify to generate...
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    Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) is a compiler for the closely related programming-language dialects Pascal and Object Pascal. It is free software released under...
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