Abstract
A source language definition specifies the evaluation procedures for the constructs of the language in terms of a set of primitive operators and operands provided for this purpose. If the source language is machine-independent, then these primitives are necessarily abstractions, as discussed in Chapter 3.A. Code generation is the process of implementing an evaluation procedure in terms of the primitives of a particular target computer. The basic approach is to simulate the evaluation procedure in the environment (register organization and addressing structure) provided by the target computer: A description of the run-time contents of the environment is maintained by the code generator. When the evaluation procedure indicates that the contents should be altered, then code to perform the alteration is emitted and the description is updated.
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Waite, W. M. (1974). Code generation. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 21 LNCS, pp. 302–332). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-21549-4_13
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