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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2022.7
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-167535
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2022/16753/
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Teixeira, Sofia ; Ramalho, José Carlos ; Henriques, Pedro Rangel

EWVM, a Web Virtual Machine to Support Code Generation in Compiler Courses

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Abstract

This paper describes a project which goal is to analyze and model a complete Virtual stack Machine (VM) environment and build a Web application with a graphical interface to deploy an environment to compile and execute VM programs. The new tool offers two main features: assembles and reports errors in programs written in the assembly language of the Virtual Machine; and animates the execution of the compiled code, displaying the internal state of the VM and providing an interface to control the execution step-by-step. In the paper, after discussing related concepts and works, a proposal to build such a tool, so far called EWVM, will be presented along the architecture drawn. A prototype will be shown, and its impact as an educational tool is argued.

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@InProceedings{teixeira_et_al:OASIcs.SLATE.2022.7,
  author =	{Teixeira, Sofia and Ramalho, Jos\'{e} Carlos and Henriques, Pedro Rangel},
  title =	{{EWVM, a Web Virtual Machine to Support Code Generation in Compiler Courses}},
  booktitle =	{11th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2022)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:9},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-245-7},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{104},
  editor =	{Cordeiro, Jo\~{a}o and Pereira, Maria Jo\~{a}o and Rodrigues, Nuno F. and Pais, Sebasti\~{a}o},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16753},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-167535},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2022.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Virtual Machine, Stack Machine, Assembler, Debugger, Compiler, Code Generation}
}

Keywords: Virtual Machine, Stack Machine, Assembler, Debugger, Compiler, Code Generation
Collection: 11th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2022)
Issue Date: 2022
Date of publication: 27.07.2022
Supplementary Material: Software (Web Application): https://ewvm.epl.di.uminho.pt/

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