Design and Implementation of a Table-Driven Compiler System

Abstract

Our goal is to provide users of the table-driven compiler system with an environment within which they can freely design and produce their compilers. The primary design criterion is generality so that the users can define a large class of input languages oriented toward any kind of problem-solving purposes, and can also define a large class of object programs to be executed on different computer systems. Therefore, in our system we do not limit the users to specific ways of doing syntactic analysis, or doing storage allocation, or producing binary programs of a specific format for a particular computer system. What we provide are mechanisms that are general enough for whichever way a user desires to build his compiler.