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Automatic translation of Fortran to JVM bytecode

Author(s) -

Seymour Keith,

Dongarra Jack

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

concurrency and computation: practice and experience

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309

H-Index - 67

eISSN - 1532-0634

pISSN - 1532-0626

DOI - 10.1002/cpe.657

Subject(s) - bytecode , programming language , fortran , computer science , java , java bytecode , compiler , real time java , java annotation , generics in java , strictfp , java modeling language , set (abstract data type) , implementation , operating system

This paper reports on the design of a Fortran‐to‐Java translator whose target language is the instruction set of the Java Virtual Machine. The goal of the translator is to generate Java implementations of legacy Fortran numerical codes in a consistent and reliable fashion. The benefits of directly generating bytecode are twofold. First, compared with generating Java source code, it provides a much more straightforward and efficient mechanism for translating Fortran GOTO statements. Second, it provides a framework for pursuing various compiler optimizations, which could be beneficial not only to our project, but to the Java community as a whole. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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