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Compiler Toolchains

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Embedded Operating Systems

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Most software is written in high level programming languages such as C, Java, Perl or Python. High-level languages comprise machine independent instructions which cannot be directly executed by the processor. High-level language instructions, therefore, must be translated into machine level (or machine dependent) instructions.

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    Note that here we use “stat” to denote statistics rather than static albeit stat is a static library.

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  1. IP Performance, Bristol, UK

    Alan Holt

  2. Tata Technologies Ltd., Bristol, UK

    Chi-Yu Huang

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Holt, A., Huang, CY. (2014). Compiler Toolchains. In: Embedded Operating Systems. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6603-0_6

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