hammondr@sungod.crd.ge.com (richard a hammond) (05/10/89)
I've recently moved and come upon a number of situations where I need to write translators from one language/variant to another. I remember talking to someone at the SIGPLAN '86 conference on compiler construction about such tools, but that is all I remember and I haven't unpacked enough to find my notes. What I'm looking for is something that allows me to specify the input language and the transformations and takes care of building things such as symbol table management. It should produce code that can run on UN*X workstations. Any leads to either commmercial or university systems would be of interest. I'll summarize my information to the list. I've considered building the lexers/parsers, symbol table stuff, transformation and output routines separately, that gets me down from N*M to N+M jobs, but I expect the same set of problems as UNCOL and its successors have. I believe that mail to me as hammondr@crd.ge.com should work, or try hammondr@crd.steinmetz.ge.com Thanks, Rich Hammond -- Send compilers articles to compilers@ima.isc.com or, perhaps, Levine@YALE.EDU Plausible paths are { decvax | harvard | yale | bbn}!ima Please send responses to the originator of the message -- I cannot forward mail accidentally sent back to compilers. Meta-mail to ima!compilers-request