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EWVM, a Web Virtual Machine to Support Code Generation in Compiler Courses
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José Carlos Ramalho 
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Pedro Rangel Henriques
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11th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2022)
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- Publication Date: 2022-07-27
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Sofia Teixeira, José Carlos Ramalho, and Pedro Rangel Henriques. EWVM, a Web Virtual Machine to Support Code Generation in Compiler Courses. In 11th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2022). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 104, pp. 7:1-7:9, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2022.7
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2022.7
Abstract
This paper describes a project which goal is to analyze and model a complete Virtual stack Machine (VM) environment and build a Web application with a graphical interface to deploy an environment to compile and execute VM programs. The new tool offers two main features: assembles and reports errors in programs written in the assembly language of the Virtual Machine; and animates the execution of the compiled code, displaying the internal state of the VM and providing an interface to control the execution step-by-step. In the paper, after discussing related concepts and works, a proposal to build such a tool, so far called EWVM, will be presented along the architecture drawn. A prototype will be shown, and its impact as an educational tool is argued.
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- Software and its engineering → Compilers
- Software and its engineering → Virtual machines
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- Virtual Machine
- Stack Machine
- Assembler
- Debugger
- Compiler
- Code Generation
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