Question

As a follow-up to my state machines as a C++-like language extension question, I d like some more help.

My compiler has been extended to parse my state machine extensions and now I m beginning semantic analysis and code generation. There is a description on this page.

Can anyone point me to good references on state machine optimization and code generation?

Edit:

I still haven t found any specific references, but this is an interesting project that I didn t know about: http://echarts.org/

They are doing, in a Java syntax, something very similar to what I m trying to do. Apparently this project originated at AT&T: http://www.research.att.com/software_tools

Answer 1

Theres a good chapter or two on state machines in Allen Hollub s book "Compiler Design In C", which also includes lots of (C I m afraid) code. The book is about writing compiler-compiler type tools, so must cover generation, though it s a few years since I ve read it.

Answer 2

The comp.compilers usenet group came through with a bit of information I needed. Instead of "statemachine optimization" I needed to give google "statemachine reduction" or "statemachine minimization".

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