The word compilation may refer to: compiler, a computer program which translates source code into a usable software package, compilation album, a record album collecting songs by one or many musical artists (this may be a film soundtrack, a tribute album, a "greatest hits" album, a benefit album, a special promotional album for a record label or a radio station, etc.) a mixtape, a homemade cassette compilation made by an individual for personal use or as a gift. In accounting, a compilation mean

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The first Compiler Compiler to use that name was written by Tony Brooker in 1960 and was used to create compilers for the Atlas computer at the University of Manchester, including the Atlas Autocode compiler. However it was rather different from modern compiler compilers, and today would probably be described as being somewhere between a highly customisable generic compiler and an extensible-syntax language. The name 'compiler compiler' was far more appropriate for Brooker's system than it is for most modern compiler compilers, which are mor ...

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A compiler is a computer program that translates a series of statements written in one computer language (called the source code) into a resulting output in another computer language (often called the object or target language). Most compilers translate a source code text file, written in a high level language to object code or machine language, e.g. into an executable .EXE or .COM file that may run on a computer or a virtual machine. However, translation from a low level language to a high level one is also possible; this is n ...

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Compiler - Native versus cross compiler. Most compilers are classified as either native compilers or cross compilers. A compiler may produce binary output intended to run on the same type of computer and operating system ("platform") as the compiler itself runs on. This is sometimes called a native-code compiler. Alternatively, it might produce binary output designed to run on a different platform. This is known as a cross compiler. Cross compilers are very useful when bringing up a new hardware platform f ...

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Compiler - Native versus cross compiler. Most compilers are classified as either native or cross-compilers. A compiler may produce binary output intended to run on the same type of computer and operating system ("platform") as the compiler itself runs on. This is sometimes called a native-code compiler. Alternatively, it might produce binary output designed to run on a different platform. This is known as a cross compiler. Cross compilers are very useful when bringing up a new hardware platform for the fir ...

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In computer science, compile time, as opposed to runtime, is the time when a compiler compiles code written in a programming language into an executable form. A compiler will typically perform syntax checking, which includes type checks, scoping rule enforcement, amongst other checks; and other processes such as static binding, instantiation of templates, and optimization. Those are also called semantic analyses. Dynamic binding is typically done after compile time, either at runtime or before runtime usually by means of a program loader. Boundary chec ...

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In the past, compilers were divided into many passes[1] to save space. A pass in this context is a run of the compiler through the source code of the program to be compiled, resulting in the building up of the internal data of the compiler (such as the evolving symbol table and other assisting data). When each pass is finished, the compiler can free the internal data space needed during that pass. This 'multipass' method of compiling was useful in the early days of computing due to the small main memories of host com ...

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A compilation album is a musical album featuring songs or tunes with some common characteristics. They may all be by the same artist, or by several (often credited to "Various Artists"). Some common types of compilation are Single-artist "best of", "singles collection" or "greatest hits" LPs, gathering together an artist's best-known songs. These often outsell an artist's regular albums. If the artist or group is still recording, it is common practice to include one or more previously unreleased tracks as an incent ...

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An assembler is a computer program for translating assembly language — essentially, a mnemonic representation of machine language — into object code. A cross assembler (see cross compiler) produces code for one type of processor, but runs on another. As well as translating assembly instruction mnemonics into opcodes, assemblers provide the ability to use symbolic names for memory locations (saving tedious calculations and manually updating addresses when a program is slightly modified), and macro facilities for performing textual substitution — typically used to encode common short sequences of instru ...

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While there are applications where only the compiler front end is necessary, such as static language verification tools, a real compiler hands the intermediate representation generated by the front end to the back end, which produces a functional equivalent program in the output language. This is done in multiple steps: Compiler analysis - This is the process to gather program information from the intermediate representation of the input source files. Typical analysis are variable define-use and use-define chain, dependence anal ...

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Blackalicious is an American alternative hip hop duo. Gift of Gab (Tim Parker) and Chief Xcel (Xavier Mosley) met at John F. Kennedy High School in 1987 in Sacramento, California and formed the group in the early 1990s and released their first recording, "Swan Lake", on Solesides Records. The Solesides Crew consisted of the two and friends of theirs who all met at UC Davis, including DJ Shadow, Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker. The single was an underground hit, but label trouble prevented ...

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Atreyu is an American metalcore band from Orange County, California. The band is signed to Victory Records, an independent record label,and has released two records under its supervision. Contrary to popular belief, the band did not intentionally name itself after Atreyu, a character from Michael Ende's novel, The Neverending Story. Rather, the name was suggested to them by the singer's friend, Hans. The members agreed that it would be a good name for a band and then adopted it as their moniker. Atreyu - Me ...

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Many people divide higher-level programming languages into compiled languages and interpreted languages. However, there is rarely anything about a language that requires it to be compiled or interpreted. Compilers and interpreters are implementations of languages, not languages themselves. The categorization usually reflects the most popular or widespread implementations of a language -- for instance, BASIC is thought of as an interpreted language, and C a compiled ...

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The fundamental use of a cross compiler is to separate the build environment from the target environment. This is useful in a number of situations: Embedded computers where a device has extremely limited resources. For example, a microwave oven will have an extremely small computer to read its touchpad and door sensor, provide output to a digital display and speaker, and to control the machinery for cooking food. This computer will not be powerful enough to run a compiler, a file system, or a development environment. Co ...

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Compiler optimization - Common themes. To a large extent, optimization techniques have the following themes, which sometime conflict. Avoid redundancy  If something has already been computed, it's generally better to store it and reuse it later, instead of recomputing it. Less code  There is less work for the CPU, cache, and memory. So, likely to be faster. Straight line code, fewer jumps  Less comp ...

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gcc is a free cross compiler that supports dozens of platforms and a handful of languages. However, due to limited volunteer time and the huge amount of work it takes to maintain working cross compilers, in many releases some of the cross compilers are broken. gcc relies upon the binaries of binutils for the targeted platform to be available. Especially important is the GNU Assembler. Therefore, binutils first has to be compiled correctly with the switch --target=some-target sent to the configure script. gcc also has to b ...

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RTL is used to represent the code being generated, in a form closer to assembly language than to the high level languages which GCC compiles. RTL is generated from the GCC Abstract Syntax Tree representation, transformed by various passes in the GCC 'middle-end', and then converted to assembly language. GCC currently uses the RTL form to do a part of its optimisation work. RTL is usually written in a form which looks like a Lisp S-expression: (set:SI (reg:SI 140) (plus:SI (reg:SI 138) (reg:SI 139))) This 'side-effect express ...

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Early in the history of compilers, compiler optimizations were not as good as hand-written ones. As compiler technologies have improved, good compilers can often generate better code than human programmers — and good post pass optimizers can improve highly hand-optimized code even further. For the RISC CPU architecture, and even more so for VLIW hardware, compiler optimization is the key for obtaining efficient code, because the RISC instruction set is so compact that it is hard for a human to manually schedule or combine small instructions to get efficient results. Indeed, these architectures ...

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Techniques in optimization can be broken up along various scopes which affect anywhere from a single statement to an entire program. Generally locally scoped techniques are easier to implement than global ones but result in lesser gains. Some examples of scopes include: Peephole optimizations: Usually performed late in the compilation process, peephole optimizations examine at most a few instructions. They may eliminate instruction sequences that do nothing, e.g. a memory read and write that end with the same data in the ...

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