A simple way to build an ANSI-C like compiler from scratch and embed it on the instrument's software

Alicia Rodríguez Trinidad; Rafael Morales Muñoz; Miguel Abril Martí; Luis Pedro Costillo Iciarra; M. C. Cárdenas Vázquez; Ovidio Rabaza Castillo; Alejandro Ramón Ballesta; Miguel A. Sánchez Carrasco; Santiago Becerril Jarque; Pedro J. Amado González

doi:10.1117/12.856385

19 July 2010 A simple way to build an ANSI-C like compiler from scratch and embed it on the instrument's software

Alicia Rodríguez Trinidad, Rafael Morales Muñoz, Miguel Abril Martí, Luis Pedro Costillo Iciarra, M. C. Cárdenas Vázquez, Ovidio Rabaza Castillo, Alejandro Ramón Ballesta, Miguel A. Sánchez Carrasco, Santiago Becerril Jarque, Pedro J. Amado González

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Proceedings Volume 7740, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy; 774025 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856385
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

This paper examines the reasons for building a compiled language embedded on an instrument software. Starting from scratch and step by step, all the compiler stages of an ANSI-C like language are analyzed, simplified and implemented. The result is a compiler and a runner with a small footprint that can be easily transferable and embedded into an instrument software. Both have about 75 KBytes when similar solutions have hundreds. Finally, the possibilities that arise from embedding the runner inside an instrument software are explored.

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Alicia Rodríguez Trinidad, Rafael Morales Muñoz, Miguel Abril Martí, Luis Pedro Costillo Iciarra, M. C. Cárdenas Vázquez, Ovidio Rabaza Castillo, Alejandro Ramón Ballesta, Miguel A. Sánchez Carrasco, Santiago Becerril Jarque, and Pedro J. Amado González "A simple way to build an ANSI-C like compiler from scratch and embed it on the instrument's software", Proc. SPIE 7740, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy, 774025 (19 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856385

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