Submit: Turn in your entire Project8 directory using the turnin command on morbius.mscsnet.mu.edu or one of the other Systems Lab machines.

Work may be completed in teams of up to three students. Be certain to include all team members' names in the file. Include a comment block at the very top of each file that contains the following:

/**
 * COSC 4400 - Project #
 * Explain briefly the functionality of the program.
 * @authors [your names]
 * Instructor [your instructor]
 * TA-BOT:MAILTO [your email addresses]
 */


The Code Generator

Implement an Instruction Selector for our dialect of the MiniJava programming language, as detailed below.

• Read Chapter 8 and 9 of Appel.
• Implement a translator that converts our Project 7 Intermediate Representation (IR) trees into ARM assembly language with an infinite pool of temporaries.
• Run the reference implementation of the instruction selector on Morbius with the command: ~brylow/cosc4400/Projects/assem < program.java
• Create your instruction selector in a package called "Assem" with a main program in class "Main". My grading protocol will assume that your project can be compiled and run with the following command line: cd Project8; make; java Assem.Main < inputfile
• Build a decent set of MiniJava testcases. Several exist in the book, and on the web. Having a good set of test inputs will be critical to your success in later phases of the project. The majority of project points will be assigned by running diff to compare your output against mine.
• Debug until done.

Specification

• To adapt your intermediate representation trees to the next phase, you will need to add kids() and build() methods to work with the Canonicalization code. (Refer to Appel chapters 8 and 9 for more information.)
• Add a CodeVisitor class to your Tree package that returns a Temp.Temp for the visit methods of each IR tree node that has an interlocking pattern; the others may return void. The Arm.Codegen visitor should extend this interface, and will produce the instruction tilings.
• I have included complete tarballs for the Assem package and the Canon package in the project directory.

Hints

My instruction selector uses these ARM Patterns to drive instruction selection.

Note that the reference implementation for this project includes various command-line options for producing more output at various substages.

I have also provided a register allocator and a Xinu-based ARM Playground for you to run your final output on a target backend.