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Conference on Domain-Specific Languages, 1997
Code Composition as an Implementation Language for Compilers
James M. Stichnoth and Thomas Gross
Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract
Code composition is an effective technique for a compiler to implement
complex high-level operations. The developer (i.e., the language
designer or compiler writer) provides building blocks consisting of
sequences of code written in, e.g., C, that are combined by a
composition system to generate the code for such a high-level
operation. The composition system can include optimizations not
commonly found in compilers; e.g., it can specialize the code
sequences based on loop nesting depth or procedure parameters. We
describe a composition system, Catacomb, and illustrate its use
for mapping array operations onto a parallel system.
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