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Compiler architecture using a portable intermediate language

Reig Galilea, 2002

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Reig Galilea F
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The back end of a compiler performs machine-dependent tasks and low-level optimisations that are laborious to implement and difficult to debug. In addition, in languages that require run-time services such as garbage collection, the back end must interface with the run-time …
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