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DESCRIPTION OF A MACHINE
ARCHITECTURE FOR  USE WITH
BLOCK  STRUCTURED  LANGUAGES
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Hans  van  Staveren
Ed G. Keizer
Johan  W. Stevenson\v'-0.5m'*\v'0.5m'
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August 1983
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Informatica Rapport IR-81
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Abstract
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EM is a family of intermediate languages
designed for producing portable compilers.
A program called
.B front end
translates source programs to EM.
Another program,
.B back
.BW end ,
translates EM to the assembly language of the target machine.
Alternatively, the EM program can be assembled to a highly
efficient binary format for interpretation.
This document describes the EM languages in detail.
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