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M68k Application Binary Interface (ABI) - M68k LLVM
Clear description, including the differences between the GCC and SysV variants.
research!rsc: Running the “Reflections on Trusting Trust” Compiler
With analysis of the surprisingly short source code.
to backdoor bell-labs compiler history retrocomputing security unix ... on 26 October 2023
marcpaq/b1fipl: A Bestiary of Single-File Implementations of Programming Languages
to amusements compiler cute-code ... on 29 June 2020
What can we learn from how compilers are designed?
Discusses things like "Why so many IRs?". Probably of interest to CMP409 students.
How LLVM Optimizes a Function – Embedded in Academia
A nice walkthrough of how LLVM's optimisation passes rewrite a simple loop. This assumes you know how LLVM's SSA representation works, but it'll still make sense even if you don't.
to cmp409 compiler llvm loop optimisation ... on 11 September 2018
N4455 No Sane Compiler Would Optimize Atomics
"Compilers do optimize atomics, memory accesses around atomics, and utilize architecture-specific knowledge. This paper illustrates a few such optimizations, and discusses their implications."
to atomic cmp201 compiler optimisation ... on 11 September 2018
CMOC - 6809 cross-compiler for a C-like language
"CMOC is a 6809-generating cross-compiler for a subset of the C language."
to 6809 c coco compiler cross-compiler dragon retrocomputing ... on 20 January 2018
picol, a Tcl interpreter in 550 lines of C code
As it says. Nothing fancy, but this is a nice example of a small language.
to cmp409 compiler interpreter parsing tcl ... on 06 January 2018
Software Preservation Group — Software Preservation Group
Some fairly specific archiving projects from CHM -- e.g. as much as they could collect about early Fortran compilers.
to compiler fortran history language-design retrocomputing ... on 13 September 2017
"After memory safety, what do you think is the next big step for compiled languages to take?" Some interesting suggestions.
to compiler language-design research ... on 12 September 2017
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tasty by Adam Sampson.