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Attribute Grammar Inversion and Source-to-source Translation

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Editors:
  1. Daniel M. Yellin
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 302)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-19

  3. Grammar based translation methodologies and RIFs

    Pages 20-42

  4. The inversion of RIF grammars

    Pages 43-61

  5. Generalizing RIFs

    Pages 62-92

  6. The INVERT system

    Pages 93-117

  7. Translating between programming languages

    Pages 118-143

  8. Conclusions and future directions

    Pages 144-153

  9. Back Matter

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With the proliferation of computer languages and dialects, it is important to create tools to aid in the construction of source-to-source translators. By allowing users to make use of software (or data) written for another system, these tools form an important component in the quest for software reusability. After discussing the theoretical and practical issues of attribute grammar inversion, this book demonstrates how the technique can be used to build source-to-source translators. This is done by first identifying a common canonical form in which to represent the various source languages and then writing attribute grammars from each source to the canonical form. By automatically inverting these attribute grammars one obtains translators from the canonical form back to each source language and by composing the appropriate pairs of translators one obtains source-to-source translators. To prove the feasibility of the inversion approach to source-to-source translation, it has been used to generate translators between the programming languages Pascal and C.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Attribute Grammar Inversion and Source-to-source Translation

  • Editors: Daniel M. Yellin

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-19072-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-19072-1Published: 15 April 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-39079-4Published: 30 June 2005

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 178

  • Topics: Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters

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