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Essential Abstractions in GCC '10
A Workshop on GCC Internals by GCC Resource Center July 5-8, 2010, IIT Bombay |
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UPDATES This workshop is a 4-day instructional workshop (and not a forum for contributed presentations) and involves lectures and laboratory exercises aimed at providing details of the internals of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection). GCC is the de-facto standard compiler generation framework on GNU/Linux and many variants of Unix. In the last 20 years of its existence, it has seen a rapid growth and wide acceptability. What is GCC? Past updates...GCC, an acronym for GNU Compiler Collection, is a compiler generation framework which generates production quality optimizing compilers from descriptions of target platforms. It follows an open development model whereby its source is available for all for inspection and modification. It supports a wide variety of source languages and target machines (including operating system specific variants) in a ready-to-deploy form. Besides, new machines can be added by describing instruction set architectures and some other information (eg. calling conventions). Novices may want to see the Wikipedia introduction to GCC. For experts, the GCC page contains a wealth of information including installation instructions, reference manuals (which include users' guides as well as details of GCC internals), a set of frequently asked questions, a wiki page for the developers of GCC, additional reading material, and several mailing lists for more detailed issues and queries. An excellent description of GCC internals can also be found on Wikipedia. Some notes on GCC internals are available at Washington University. Who should attend this workshop? Anybody who has done at least a first level undergraduate course in compiler construction and has some experience of either working in compilers or teaching compilers. A sound understanding of the process of compilation is a must. Familiarity with Unix/Linux (particularly, the command line style of working) is absolutely necessary. We have identified some homework exercises to be done before the participants arrive for the workshop. Take-aways from the workshop After attending this workshop
Structure of the workshop This offering of the workshop has a lot of new material and all the material has been upgraded to GCC 4.5.0. Besides, based on the feedback from participants in past workshops, this year we are dividing the workshop in the following two parts:
Participants who have GCC experience can join the workshop on July 6, 2010. All other participants have to attend from July 5, 2010. Appropriate concession in fees will be provided to the participants joining on July 6, 2010. Please see the registration page for more details. Topics to be Covered All discussion in the workshop will happen in context of GCC 4.5.0. Following is the tentative list of topics that will be covered:
To see presentations, please visit the slides and handouts page. |
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