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Optimizing Compilers for the SPARC Architecture

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The SPARC Technical Papers

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This paper discusses Sun Microsystems’ user programming model for the SPARC architecture [SPAR87], and the optimizing compilers for the SPARC-based Sun-4 workstations. The architecture and its first implementations are discussed in [GarA88, ChuQ88, Goss88, Solt88] and [Klei88] describes the Sun implementation of UNIX for SPARC. Here we concern ourselves with two broad areas: how the compilers use the architecture and the design of the compilers themselves.

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  1. Steven S. Muchnick
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  1. Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA, 94043, USA

    Ben J. Catanzaro

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Muchnick, S.S. et al. (1991). Optimizing Compilers for the SPARC Architecture. In: Catanzaro, B.J. (eds) The SPARC Technical Papers. Sun Technical Reference Library. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3192-9_18

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3192-9_18

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