Free Pascal development resources
Please, put additions using FTP on www.freepascal.org
in the directory /FPC/html/resources.
Add an entry here (this page is in CVS), and remember that it has
a relative directory resources.
Please put it in a format that everyone can read on any platform,
if possible (e.g. not MS word).
Several manuals
- Compaq pascal reference manual.
- Intel architecture manual.
- Intel ELF (Executable and Linking Format) format description.
(A zipped postscript version is also available, and is substantially smaller.)
- LX executables file format
(in IBM INF format - it's supposed to be supported in our IDE, although I didn't try it)
Alpha architecture documents
- Calling conventions for Alpha architecture. (zipped postscript)
- Assembly language reference for Alpha architecture. (zipped postscript)
- The copt peephole optmizer
- Notes
- Alpha architecture quick port guide
- LCC port to alpha. (With it's daily daily log)
Publications of the MSCP
- K.D. Cooper and Nathaniel McIntosh
"Enhanced Code Compression for Embedded RISC Processors",
ACM SIGPLAN PLDI 99, June 1999.
- K.D. Cooper, P.J. Schielke, and D. Subramanian,
Optimizing for Reduced Code Space using Genetic Algorithms,
LCTES 99, June 1999.
- K.D. Cooper and T.J. Harvey,
Compiler-Controlled Memory, 8th ASPLOS, October 1998.
- K.D. Cooper and P.J. Schielke,
Non-local instruction scheduling with limited code growth,
LCTES 98, June 1998.
- J. Lu,
Interprocedural Pointer Analysis for C, PhD
Thesis, Rice University, April 1998. Also can be found as
Technical Report tr98-317.
- T. J. Harvey,
Reducing the Impact of Spill Code, Master's
Thesis, Rice University, May 1998. Also can be found as
Technical Report tr98-319.
- K. D. Cooper, L. T. Simpson, and C. A. Vick,
Operator Strength Reduction, submitted for publication
March, 1997.
- K. D. Cooper and L. T. Simpson,
Live range splitting in a graph coloring register allocator,
Proceedings of the 1998 International Compiler Construction
Conference, March 1998. Preliminary version (to appear).
- K. D. Cooper, T. J. Harvey, and L. Torczon,
How to Build an Interference Graph,
Software--Practice and Experience,
April, 1998.
- P. Briggs, K. D. Cooper, T. J. Harvey, and L. T. Simpson,
Practical Improvements to the Construction and
Destruction of Static Single Assignment Form,
Software--Practice and Experience, to appear.
- K. D. Cooper and J. Lu,
Register Promotion in C Programs, Proceedings of the SIGPLAN 97
Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, June 1997.
- P. Briggs, K. D. Cooper, and L. T. Simpson,
Value Numbering, Software--Practice and Experience 27(6), June 1997, pages 701--724
- K. D. Cooper, K. Kennedy, and N. McIntosh,
Cross-loop Reuse Analysis and its Application to Cache Optimizations,
Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Languages and Compilers
for Parallel Computing,
San Jose, August 1996.
- K. D. Cooper, L. T. Simpson, and C. A. Vick,
SCC-Based
Value Numbering,
Technical report CRPC-TR95636-S,
Center for Research on Parallel Computation,
Rice University, October 1995.
- K. D. Cooper and L. T. Simpson.
Value-Driven
Code Motion,
Technical report CRPC-TR95637-S,
Center for Research on Parallel Computation,
Rice University, October 1995.
- P. Briggs, K. D. Cooper, and L. T. Simpson,
Value
Numbering,
Technical report CRPC-TR95517-S,
Center for Research on Parallel Computation,
Rice University, November 1994,
To appear in Software - Practice and Experience.
- P. Briggs and L. Torczon,
An
Efficient Representation for Sparse Sets,
ACM Letters on Programming Languages and Systems
(LOPLAS) 2(1-4), March-December 1993, pages 59-70.
- M. Burke and L. Torczon,
Interprocedural
Optimization: Eliminating Unnecessary Recompilation,
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
(TOPLAS) 15(3), July 1993, pages 367-399.
- K. D. Cooper, M. W. Hall, and K. Kennedy,
A Methodology
for Procedure Cloning,
Computer Languages, 19(2), April 1993, pages 105-118.
- P. Briggs, K. D. Cooper, and L. Torczon,
Rematerialization,
Proceedings of the SIGPLAN 92 Conference on Programming Language
Design and Implementation,
SIGPLAN Notices 27(7), July 1992, pages 311-321.
- K. D. Cooper,
Using Compiler
Technology to Drive Advanced Microprocessors
Proceedings of the DARPA Software Technology Conference,
Los Angeles, CA, April 28-30, 1992, pages 42-49.
- P. Briggs,
Register Allocation
via Graph Coloring,
PhD thesis, Rice University, April 1992.
- P. Briggs, K. D. Cooper, and L. Torczon,
Coloring Register Pairs,
ACM Letters on Programming Languages and Systems,
(LOPLAS) 1(1), March 1992, pages 3-13.
- K. D. Cooper, M. W. Hall, and L. Torczon,
Unexpected
Side Effects of Inline Substitution: A Case Study,
ACM Letters on Programming Languages and Systems,
(LOPLAS) 1(1), March 1992, pages 22-32.
- K. D. Cooper, M. W. Hall, and L. Torczon,
An Experiment with Inline Substitution,
Software - Practice and Experience
21(6), June 1991, pages 581-601.
- P. Briggs, K. D. Cooper, K. Kennedy, and L. Torczon,
Coloring Heuristics for Register Allocation,
Proceedings of the SIGPLAN 89 Conference on Programming
Language Design and Implementation,
SIGPLAN Notices 24(7), July 1989, pages 275-284.
- K. D. Cooper and K. Kennedy,
Fast Interprocedural Alias Analysis,
Conference Record of the Sixteenth Annual ACM SIGACT/SIGPLAN Symposium
on Principles of Programming Languages,
January 1989, pages 49-59.
- K. D. Cooper and K. Kennedy
Interprocedural Side-Effect Analysis in Linear Time,
Proceedings of the SIGPLAN 88 Conference on Programming
Language Design and Implementation,
SIGPLAN Notices 23(7), July 1988, pages 57-66.
Useful links with resources
- Intel's Tools Interface Standard