A Catalog of Research Compiler Infrastructures and Tools

Machine SUIF is “a flexible, extensible, and usable infrastructure for constructing compiler back ends.” Most notably, Machine SUIF provides a way to generate code for x86, IA-64, or Alpha from SUIF code, as well as “libraries for control- and data-flow analysis, and passes for register allocation, instruction scheduling, scalar optimization, and code layout.” The optimizations supplied by Machine SUIF are implemented on top of a substrate-independent API — therefore, one can use Machine SUIF optimizations in other compiler infrastructures by re-implementing an API. Furthermore, target-specific information to be used by low-level optimizations is supplied by dynamically-linked libraries, allowing the possibility of portable low-level optimization code.

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