CHAPTER 6
Intermediate-Code Generation
In the analysis-synthesis model of a compiler, the front end analyzes a source program and creates an intermediate representation, from which the back end generates target code. Ideally, details of the source language are confined to the front end, and details of the target machine to the back end. With a suitably defined intermediate representation, a compiler for language i and machine j can then be built by combining the front end for language i with the back end for machine j. This approach to creating suite of compilers can save a considerable amount of effort: m × n compilers can be built by writing just m front ends and n back ends.
This chapter deals with intermediate representations, static type ...
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