Types in compilation
Subtitle: third international workshop, TIC 2000, Montreal, Canada, September 21, 2000 : revised selected papers
By: Robert Harper, (ed.)
Contributors: Harper, Robert William, 1957-
Series: Lecture notes in computer science -- 2071
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Compiling (Electronic computers) -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: The importance of typed languages for building robust software systems is, by now, an undisputed fact. Years of research have led to languages with richly expressive, yet easy to use, type systems for high-level programming languages. Types provide not only a conceptual framework for language designers, but also a ord positive bene ts to the programmer, principally the ability to express and enforce levels of abstraction within a program. Early compilers for typed languages followed closely the methods used for their untyped counterparts. The role of types was limited to the earliest s- ges of compilation, and they were thereafter ignored during the remainder of the translation process. More recently, however, implementors have come to - cognize the importance of types during compilation and even for object code. Several advantages of types in compilation have been noted to date: { They support self-checking by the compiler. By tracking types during c- pilation it is possible for an internal type checker to detect translation errors at an early stage, greatly facilitating compiler development. { They support certi cation of object code. By extending types to the ge- rated object code, it becomes possible for a code user to ensure the basic integrity of that code by checking its type consistency before execution. { They support optimized data representations and calling conventions, even in the presence of modularity. By passing types at compile-, link-, and even run-time, it is possible to avoid compromises of data representation imposed by untyped compilation techniques.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index

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Table of contents: title: Sound and complete elimination of singleton kinds / Karl Crary; title: Program representation size in an intermediate language with intersection and union types / Allyn Dimock ... [et al.]; title: An abstract model of Java dynamic linking and loading / Sophia Drossopoulou; title: Sharing in typed module assembly language / Dominic Duggan; title: Scalable certification for typed assembly language / Dan Grossman, Greg Morrisett; title: Safe and flexible dynamic linking of native code / Michael Hicks, Stephanie Weirich, Karl Crary; title: Alias types for recursive data structures / David Walker, Greg Morrisett