Optimizing compilers for the SPARC architecture-an overview
Steven S. Muchnick, Christopher A. Aoki, Vida Ghodssi, Michel Helft, M. Lee, Richard Tuck, David Leo Weaver, Alexander Wu · 1988
The authors discuss the user programming model for the scalable processor architecture (SPARC) and the optimizing compilers for the SPARC-based Sun-4 workstations. They are concerned with two broad areas: how the compilers use the architecture and the design of the compilers themselves. They discuss the registers, synthesized instructions, tagged data support, the compilers, the global and peephole optimizers, and compiler performance analysis.>