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Can a tiny compiler-compiler grow into something useful?

by Bill McKeeman

 

11 Mar 2009 (Updated 25 Jun 2009)

A grammar executing machine is used to build compiler-like programs (talk only).

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This is a MATLAB "publish" summary of a talk given to the EE seminar at Stanford March 2009. It is a part of FX entry 20149 which contains all the programs mentioned in the talk.

Self-description, execution, backtracking and invertibility are discussed.

Acknowledgements
This submission has inspired the following:
Growing a Compiler
MATLAB release MATLAB 7.7 (R2008b)
Other requirements Intel x86
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Updates
13 Mar 2009

Fixed Broken Formulas.

13 Mar 2009

Fixed bug in calculator (swapped X86 and A64 versions)

17 Mar 2009

Fixed typos reported by Alan Martin

19 Jun 2009

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25 Jun 2009

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Tag Activity for this File
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compiler Bill McKeeman 11 Mar 2009 10:46:20
execution Bill McKeeman 11 Mar 2009 10:46:20
backtracking Bill McKeeman 11 Mar 2009 10:46:20
inversion Bill McKeeman 11 Mar 2009 10:46:20
context free grammar Bill McKeeman 23 Mar 2009 17:26:08
self description Bill McKeeman 23 Mar 2009 17:26:08

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