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1 | .if !\n(xx .so tmac.p |
2 | .RP | |
3 | .TL | |
4 | Berkeley Pascal | |
5 | PX Implementation Notes | |
6 | .br | |
7 | Version 1.1 \- April, 1979 | |
8 | .AU | |
9 | William N. Joy\*(dg | |
10 | .AI | |
11 | Computer Science Division | |
12 | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | |
13 | University of California, Berkeley | |
14 | Berkeley, California 94720 | |
15 | .AB | |
16 | .PP | |
17 | Berkeley Pascal | |
18 | is designed for interactive instructional use and runs on the | |
19 | \s-2PDP\s0 11 computer family. | |
20 | ..A version of \fIpx\fR for the \s-2VAX\s0 11/780 is nearly complete. | |
21 | The interpreter | |
22 | .I px | |
23 | executes the Pascal binaries generated by the Pascal translator | |
24 | .I pi . | |
25 | .PP | |
26 | The | |
27 | .I | |
28 | PX Implementation Notes | |
29 | .R | |
30 | describe the overall organization of | |
31 | .I px , | |
32 | detail the various operations of the interpreter, | |
33 | with a special section describing the file input/output structure. | |
34 | Conclusions are given as to the viability of an interpreter | |
35 | based approach to language implementation for an instructional environment. | |
36 | .AE | |
37 | .if n 'ND | |
38 | .SH | |
39 | Introduction | |
40 | .PP | |
41 | This | |
42 | .I | |
43 | PX Implementation Notes | |
44 | .R | |
45 | consists of four major parts. | |
46 | The first part outlines the overall organization of | |
47 | .I px . | |
48 | Section 2 describes the operations (instructions) of the interpreter | |
49 | while section 3 focuses on input/output related activity. | |
50 | A final section gives conclusions about the viability of an interpreter | |
51 | based approach to language implementation for instruction. | |
52 | .SH | |
53 | Related Berkeley Pascal documents | |
54 | .PP | |
55 | The | |
56 | .I "PXP Implementation Notes" | |
57 | give details of the internals of the execution profiler | |
58 | .I pxp; | |
59 | parts of the interpreter related to | |
60 | .I pxp | |
61 | are discussed in section 2.10. | |
62 | A paper describing the syntactic error recovery mechanism used in | |
63 | .I pi | |
64 | will be presented at the ACM Conference on Compiler Construction | |
65 | in Boulder Colorado in August, 1979. | |
66 | .SH | |
67 | Acknowledgements | |
68 | .PP | |
69 | This version of | |
70 | .I px | |
71 | is heavily based on an earlier | |
72 | .I px | |
73 | which was designed and implemented by Ken Thompson, | |
74 | the author of the first | |
75 | .UP | |
76 | system. | |
77 | Without his work, this | |
78 | .UP | |
79 | system would never have existed. | |
80 | Charles Haley, who collaborated with the author on this project, wrote | |
81 | some of the more difficult input/output routines in this version of | |
82 | .I px, | |
83 | and helped to debug it all. | |
84 | His assistance in teaching this author about | |
85 | .UX | |
86 | and Pascal is gratefully acknowledged and appreciated. | |
87 | The author would also like to thank his faculty advisor Susan L. Graham | |
88 | for her encouragement, | |
89 | her helpful comments and suggestions | |
90 | relating to | |
91 | .UP | |
92 | and her excellent editorial assistance. | |
93 | .FS | |
94 | \*(dg The financial support of the National Science Foundation under grants | |
95 | MCS74-07644-A03 and MCS78-07291 | |
96 | and of an \s-2IBM\s0 Graduate Fellowship are gratefully acknowledged. | |
97 | .FE | |
98 | .bp |