gccbcpl resources

This is a repository of resources for BCPL and GCC, along with other general compiler-related resources that are relevant to the project. Many are available online, but some will be made available for download here very shortly (subject to copyright and permission). As always, additions and corrections are welcome.

The BNF grammar for BCPL that has been used for this project is available for comments. Unfortunately, BNF is unable to describe certain language features in BCPL, which may be reflected by missing or partially described productions in the grammar.

BCPL resources

Articles

• Barron, D. W., Buxton, J. N., Hartley, D. F., Nixon, E. & Strachey, C. (1963), The Main Features of CPL, The Computer Journal 6(2), pages 134--143.
• Richards, M. (1971), The Portability of the BCPL Compiler, Software - Practice and Experience 1(2), pages 135--146.
• Ritchie, D. M. (1993), The Development of the C Language, Preprints of the ACM History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-II), ACM SIGPLAN Notices 28(3), pages 201--208.

Books

• Emery, G. (1986), BCPL and C, 1st edition, Blackwell Scientific Publishing (ISBN: 0-632-01607-8).
• Richards, M. & Whitby-Strevens, C. (1980), BCPL - the language and its compiler, 1st edition, Cambridge University Press (ISBN: 0-521-28681-6).

Manuals

• Curry, J. F. (1969), The BCPL Reference Manual, Xerox PARC.
• Johnson, S. C. & Kernighan, B. W. (1973), The Programming Language B, Bell Laboratories.
• Richards, M. (1967), The BCPL Reference Manual, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Richards, M. (1973), The BCPL Programming Manual, University of Cambridge.
• Richards, M. (2003), The BCPL Cintcode System Users Guide, University of Cambridge.
• Willers, I. & Maurer, D. (1976), The BCPL Mini-Manual, CERN.

Proceedings

• Richards, M. (1969), BCPL: A Tool for Compiler Writing and System Programming, Proceedings of the AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference, Vol. 34, pages 557--566.

Technical Reports

• Crick, T. (2004), A GCC Front End for BCPL, CSBU-2004-06, Technical Report Series, Department of Computer Science, University of Bath (ISSN: 1740-9497).
• Middleton, M. D., Richards, M., Firth, R. & Willers, I. (1982), A Proposed Definition of the Language BCPL, ???
• Richards, M. (1975), INTCODE - An Interpretive Machine Code for BCPL, University of Cambridge.

Web

• Dictionary of Programming Languages (1997), BCPL.
• Feather, C. (1998), Clive Feather on CPL and BCPL.
• Feather, C. (2002), A Brief(ish) Description of BCPL.
• FOLDOC (1995), BCPL from FOLDOC.
• Manning, M. (1999), BCPL.
• Richards, M. (2000), BCPL.
• Ritchie, D. M. (2002), BCPL Reference Manual.
• Singer, J. (2004), BCPL information.
• Watson, A. (1998), Alan Watson on BCPL.
• Wikipedia (2004), BCPL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

GCC resources

Articles

• Cytron, R., Ferrante, J., Rosenn, B. K., Wegman, M. N. & Zadeck, F. K. (1991), Efficiently Computing Static Single Assignment Form and the Control Dependence Graph, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) 13(4), pages 451--490.

Manuals

• Stallman, R. M. (2004), GNU Compiler Collection Internals (for GCC 3.5.0), GNU/Free Software Foundation Inc.
• Stallman, R. M. (2004), Using the GNU Compiler Collection (for GCC 3.5.0), GNU/Free Software Foundation Inc.

Proceedings

• Hendren, L., Donawa, C., Emami, M., Gao, G. & Sridharan, B. (1992), Designing the McCAT Compiler Based on a Family of Structured Intermediate Representations, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, No. 457, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, pages 406--420.
• Merill, J. (2003), GENERIC and GIMPLE: A New Tree Representation for Entire Functions, Proceedings of the 2003 GCC Summit, pages 171--180.
• Novillo, D. (2003), Tree SSA - A New Optimization Infrastructure for GCC, Proceedings of the 2003 GCC Summit, pages 181--194.
• Rosen, B. K., Wegman, M. N. & Zadeck, F. K. (1988), Global Value Numbers and Redundant Computations, Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, pages 12--27.

Technical Reports

• Novillo, D. (2003), Tree SSA: A New High-Level Optimization Framework for the GNU Compiler Collection, Red Hat Canada Ltd.

Web

• GCC (2003), GCC Coding Standards.
• GCC (2003), GCC Front Ends.
• GCC (2004), SSA for Trees.
• GCC (2004), Tree SSA Documentation.
• GCC (2004), Contributing to GCC.
• GCC (2004), GCC 3.5 Release Series - Changes, New Features and Fixes.
• GNU (2003), GNU Coding Standards.
• GNU (2003), GNU General Public License.
• GNU (2003), Information for Maintainers of GNU Software.

General compiler resources

Books

• Aho, A. V., Sethi, R. & Ullmann, J. D. (1986), Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools, 1st edition, Computer Science Series, Addison-Wesley (ISBN: 0-201-10194-7).
• Fischer, C. N. & LeBlanc, R. J. (1991), Crafting a Compiler with C, 1st edition, Benjamin-Cummings Publishing (ISBN: 0-8053-2166-7).
• Kernighan, B. W. & Ritchie, D. M. (1988), The C Programming Language, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall Software Series, Prentice Hall (ISBN: 0-13110-362-8).
• Levine, J. R., Mason, T. & Brown, D. (1995), lex & yacc, 2nd edition, Unix Programming Tools, O'Reilly (ISBN: 1-56592-000-7).
• Wilhelm, R. & Maurer, D. (1995), Compiler Design, 1st edition, International Computer Science Series, Addison-Wesley (ISBN: 0-201-42290-5).

Manuals

• Donnelly, C. & Stallman, R. (2002), Bison: The YACC-compatible Parser Generator, GNU/Free Software Foundation Inc.
• Paxson, V. (1995), Flex: A Fast Scanner Generator, GNU/Free Software Foundation Inc.