JavaRAG: A Java Library for Reference Attribute Grammars

Summary, in English

Reference attribute grammars (RAGs) is a powerful formalism for developing modular extensible compilers and program analysis tools. This paper presents JavaRAG, an implementation of RAGs as a Java library that is independent of the abstract syntax tree structure. This makes it possible to extend legacy compilers implemented in Java with RAG computations. We have evaluated the approach by integrating with EMF, ANTLR, and hand-built abstract syntax trees, and we compare performance and specification size with JastAdd and Kiama which are other RAG-based tools. Our JavaRAG library is open source and is used in a compiler for the dataflow language CAL.

• Författare: Niklas Fors; Gustav Cedersjö; Görel Hedin
• Avdelning/ar: Institutionen för datavetenskap; ELLIIT: the Linköping-Lund initiative on IT and mobile communication; Programvaruteknik
• Publiceringsår: 2015
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 55-67
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Proceedings of the International Conference on Modularity
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2724525.2724572
• Dokumenttyp: Konferensbidrag
• Förlag: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Ämne: Computer Science
• Conference name: ACM International Conference on Modularity
• Conference date: 2015-03-16 - 2015-03-19
• Conference place: Fort Collins, United States
• Status: Published
• Projekt: ELLIIT LU P05: Scalable Language Tools for Cyber-Physical Systems
• Forskningsgrupp: ESDLAB; LUCAS
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISBN: 978-1-4503-3249-1