PTOM - A PASCAL Translator For Mobile Code

PTOM - A PASCAL Translator For Mobile Code (1996)

by Christian F. Tschudin

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TITLE	PTOM - A PASCAL Translator For Mobile Code	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Christian F. Tschudin	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	Computer Science Department, University of Zurich,	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
ABSTRACT	We report on an implementation of a pascal translator that generates code for mobile software messengers (agents): these agents can roam a network of interconnected execution platforms on behalf of a user, enabling users to implement customized network functionality themselves. In this report we focus on the language extensions (pascal-m) and the implementation aspects of the translator. The main departure in pascal-m from standard pascal is that the programmer has access to the generated code in form of string constants. An interesting aspect of the "pascal-to-MØ" (ptom) translator is that pascal-m is translated to the stack-based high-level language MØ. MØ is similar to postscript and has no notion of memory addresses although pascal compilers usually produce code for machines or software interpreters with word addressable memory: because MØ completely hides the exact memory locations of code as well as data, we have to use other implementation approaches for activation frames, var...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1996	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	TECHREPORT	INFERENCE
TECH	Technical Report ifi-96.06	INFERENCE
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