Industrial strength compiler construction with equations
Lutz H. Hamel · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 1992
Industrial strength compilers need not only be robust and efficient but also understandable, maintainable, and extensible. To make compilers more manageable there has been a strong trend towards the high-level specification of the different phases of the compilation process. However, the high-level specification of one phase - the semantic analysis - has not been very successful in terms of production quality standards. In this paper we propose the use of a language based on equations for the specification of the semantic analysis phase of compilers.