A Fast General Parser for Automatic Code Generation

Abstract. The code generator in a compiler attempts to match a subject tree against a collection of tree-shaped patterns for generating instructions. Tree-pattern matching may be considered as a generalization of string parsing. We propose a new generalized LR (GLR) parser, which extends the LR parser stack with a parser cactus. GLR explores all plausible parsing steps to find the least-cost matching. GLR is fast due to two properties: (1) duplicate parsing steps are eliminated and (2) partial parse trees that will not lead to a least-cost matching are discarded as early as possible. 1

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: MTPP
• Authors: Wuu Yang
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, LR Parser Stack, MTPP 2010, Parsing, Plausible Parsing Steps