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A single-pass syntax-directed front end for Ada

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Issue 6

Pages 318 - 326

https://doi.org/10.1145/872726.807006

Published: 01 June 1982 Publication History

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This paper describes the front-end processor of an Ada compiler that is under development at Florida State University. The compiler is coded in Pascal, to execute on a CDC Cyber system, and is presently targeted to the Z8000 microprocessor architecture. Owing at least in part to the peculiar origins and changing goals of this project, the front end processor is rather unlike those of the other Ada compilers of which we know. Perhaps its most distinctive feature is that it operates in one pass.

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Giering EBaker T(1994)A tool for the deterministic scheduling of real-time programs implemented as periodic Ada tasksProceedings of the second international symposium on Environments and tools for Ada10.1145/199189.192853(54-73)Online publication date: 1-Sep-1994
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Giering EBaker T(1994)A tool for the deterministic scheduling of real-time programs implemented as periodic Ada tasksACM SIGAda Ada Letters10.1145/192839.192853XIV:SI(54-73)Online publication date: 1-Sep-1994
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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 17, Issue 6

Proceedings of the 1982 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction

June 1982

347 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/872726

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SIGPLAN '82: Proceedings of the 1982 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction
June 1982
357 pages
ISBN:0897910745
DOI:10.1145/800230
Chairmen:
John R. White,
Frances E. Allen

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/122167.122178
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/199189.192853
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/192839.192853
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