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From: mabel!landers@uunet.uu.net
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Choosing software VM instruction sets
Keywords: interpreter, design
Message-ID: <91-05-103@comp.compilers>
Date: 28 May 91 01:42:06 GMT
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I'm interested in finding references about the design of instruction sets for
software based virtual machines.  For instance, the HOC calculator in
Kernighan & Pike's "Unix Programming Environment" is a simple stack based
machine with a small number of operators.

I'm especially interested in references on compiling a HLL, such as C, for a
VM that runs on a wide variety of different hardware platforms (rather than,
say, using the VM instruction set as an intermediate language).

Thanks in advance,

Joe Landers
TechniCon Computer Services
444 Spear St.,  Suite 213			phone: (415)-896-6313
San Francisco, CA.  94105			 uucp: ..!uunet!mabel!landers
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