Description-driven code generation using attribute grammars
Mahadevan Ganapathi, Charles N. Fischer · 1982
The instruction-set of a target architecture is represented as a set of attribute-grammar productions. A code generator is obtained automatically for any compiler using attributed parsing techniques. A compiler built on this model can automatically perform most popular machine-dependent optimizations, including peephole optimizations. The code generator is also easily retargetable to different machine architectures.