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EWVM, a Web Virtual Machine to Support Code Generation in Compiler Courses

Authors Sofia Teixeira, José Carlos Ramalho , Pedro Rangel Henriques

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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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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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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

Author Details

Sofia Teixeira
  • Centro ALGORITMI, Departamento de Informática, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
José Carlos Ramalho
  • Centro ALGORITMI, Departamento de Informática, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Pedro Rangel Henriques
  • Centro ALGORITMI, Departamento de Informática, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Funding

This work has been supported by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the R&D Units Project Scope: UIDB/00319/2020.

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