Nanopass Compiler Library

This repositiory contains a Racket version of the Nanopass Compiler Infrastructure described in [1, 2, 3, 4], along with the beginnings of a test compiler for the library and the rough start to a users guide. The nanopass framework for Racket has been tested on Racket version 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, and the current development version. An R6RS Scheme version also exists which support Chez Scheme, Vicare Scheme, and Ikarus Scheme.

Files

ReadMe.md               -- this readme file
Acknowledgements        -- thanks to those who have supported the work
Copyright               -- copyright information
TODO                    -- the head of the infinite todo list
LOG                     -- change log for the nanopass framework
main.rkt                -- the main interface to the nanopass compiler library
base.rkt                -- the main interface to the nanopass/base compiler library
private/                -- contains the parts that nanopass.ss aggregates
lang/reader.rkt         -- contains the Racket lang definition for the nanopass framework
tests/                  -- contains a testing compiler along with tests for that
                           compiler and a driver for running the tests
tests/test-all.rkt      -- is a simple wrapper for importing the compiler and
                           performing a testing run of all of the tests.
doc/                    -- contains a user guide and developer guide along with a
                           makefile for generating their pdfs with pdflatex

For more information on using the pre-compile binaries, see the README.md file in the lib directory.

References

[1] A. Keep and R. K. Dybvig. A Nanopass Compiler for Commercial Compiler Development. In ICFP ’13: Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, New York, NY, USA, 2013. ACM.

[2] A. Keep. A Nanopass Framework for Commercial Compiler Development. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, Feb. 2013.

[3] D. Sarkar. Nanopass Compiler Infrastructure. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 2008.

[4] D. Sarkar, O. Waddell, and R. K. Dybvig. A nanopass infrastructure for compiler education. In ICFP ’04: Proceedings of the ninth ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, pages 201–212, New York, NY, USA, 2004. ACM.