Towards a compiler front-end for Ada
Gerhard Goos, Georg Winterstein · 1980
This paper discusses the current development of a compiler front-end for Ada at the University of Karlsruhe. The front-end is independent of the target-machine and will compile Ada into an intermediate language AIDA, essentially an attributed structure tree. The front-end is written in its own language using Ada-0 and LIS as preliminary compilers for the bootstrap. The compiler in its present form relies heavily on the formal definition of Ada which is under development at CII and IRIA.