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Calculating correct compilers II: Return of the register machines

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PATRICK BAHR Open the ORCID record for PATRICK BAHR [Opens in a new window]  and
GRAHAM HUTTON Open the ORCID record for GRAHAM HUTTON [Opens in a new window]
PATRICK BAHR
Affiliation:
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (e-mail: paba@itu.dk)
GRAHAM HUTTON
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, UK (e-mail: graham.hutton@nottingham.ac.uk)
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In ‘Calculating Correct Compilers’ (Bahr & Hutton, 2015), we developed a new approach to calculating compilers directly from specifications of their correctness. Our approach only required elementary reasoning techniques and has been used to calculate compilers for a wide range of language features and their combination. However, the methodology was focused on stack-based target machines, whereas real compilers often target register-based machines. In this article, we show how our approach can naturally be adapted to calculate compilers for register machines.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 30 , 2020 , e25
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