Compiler Construction

Myths and facts about the efficient implementation of finite automata and lexical analysis.- Generalised recursive descent parsing and follow-determinism.- Analyzing direct non-local dependencies in attribute grammars.- Storage allocation strategies for recursive attribute evaluators.- Basic-block graphs: Living dinosaurs?.- Analysis of loops.- A new approach to control flow analysis.- Flow logics for constraint based analysis.- Extended SSA mumbering: Introducing SSA properties to languages with multi-level pointers.- Strength reduction via SSAPRE.- Detecting parallelism in C programs with recursive data structures.- Live range splitting in a graph coloring register allocator.- Challenges and opportunities visual programming languages bring to programming language research.- Local stack allocation.- A new fast algorithm for optimal register allocation in modulo scheduled loops.- A code motion framework for global instruction scheduling.- VLIW compilation techniques for superscalar architectures.- Issues in translating Smalltalk to Java.- Intermodular slicing of object-oriented programs.- Portable debugging and profiling.- The Eli system.- Lrc — a generator for incremental language-oriented tools.- An extended static checker for modula-3.- Cool: A control-flow generator for system analysis.