Compiler Description Language (CDL) is a programming language based on affix grammars. It is very similar to Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation. It was designed...
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a compiler-compiler or compiler generator is a programming tool that creates a parser, interpreter, or compiler from some form of formal description of...
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Compiled language categorizes a programming language as used with a compiler and generally implies not used with an interpreter. But, since any language...
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compiler is often a temporary compiler, used for compiling a more permanent or better optimised compiler for a language. Related software include decompilers...
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In computer engineering, a hardware description language (HDL) is a specialized computer language used to describe the structure and behavior of electronic...
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Yacc (redirect from Yet Another Compiler Compiler)
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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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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The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a collection of compilers from the GNU Project that support various programming languages, hardware architectures...
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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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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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VHDL (redirect from VHSIC hardware description language)
VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) is a hardware description language that can model the behavior and structure of digital systems at multiple...
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and an interactive compiler refers to a compiler that is actually a part of the runtime system of the source language. The compiler can be invoked at runtime...
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Luther, David A.; Erdmann, Sherian (1969). "The TREE-META Compiler-Compiler System: A Meta Compiler System for the Univac 1108 and General Electric 645"....
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Backus–Naur form (category Compiler construction)
programming language development, notably as the basis for early compiler-compiler systems. Examples include Edgar T. Irons' "A Syntax Directed Compiler for ALGOL...
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Interpreter (computing) (redirect from Compiler-interpreter)
"interpreted language" or "compiled language" signify that the canonical implementation of that language is an interpreter or a compiler, respectively...
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self-hosting compiler is a bootstrapping problem, i.e. the first such compiler for a language must be either hand written machine code, compiled by a compiler written...
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NELIAC (redirect from Navy Electronics Laboratory International ALGOL Compiler)
Laboratory International ALGOL Compiler (NELIAC) is a dialect and compiler implementation of the programming language ALGOL 58, developed by the Navy...
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LCC ("Local C Compiler" or "Little C Compiler") is a small, retargetable compiler for the ANSI C programming language. Although its source code is available...
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Just-in-time compilation (redirect from JIT compiler)
programming languages, as the runtime system can handle late-bound data types and enforce security guarantees. The earliest published JIT compiler is generally...
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behavioral description. The tool takes a specification, often written in a high-level programming language like C++ or a specialized domain-specific language (DSL)...
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The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) is a native or machine code compiler for the functional programming language Haskell. It provides a cross-platform...
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Object Description Language (ODL) was the original interface definition language created by Microsoft for specifying interfaces to be used in OLE Automation...
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on Compiler Construction in Denver, Colorado. The next compiler construction conference took place in 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts. The compiler construction...
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Eiffel compiler as a transcompiler or source-to-source compiler. Note that languages are not strictly interpreted languages or compiled languages. Rather...
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of notable programming languages, by decade. History of computing hardware History of programming languages Programming language Timeline of computing...
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code for the frontend and language specification. LDC – A compiler based on the DMD front-end that uses LLVM as its compiler back-end. The first release-quality...
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compilers for IBM PCs, see Microsoft Pascal. To propagate the language rapidly, a compiler porting kit was created in Zürich that included a compiler...
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The Advanced Boolean Expression Language (ABEL) is an obsolete hardware description language (HDL) and an associated set of design tools for programming...
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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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A Java compiler is a compiler for the Java programming language. Some Java compilers output optimized machine code for a particular hardware/operating...
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