Similar to many existing compilers, the Viper compiler framework generates an intermediate code for a virtual architecture.

When the GNAT compiler is invoked on Ada code, the GNAT front end expands and translates the Ada code into an intermediate language that’s passed to GCC, where the code is optimized and ...

A typical compiler has three components: the front end, tailored to a specific programming language; the back end, tailored to a specific chip design; and the middle end, which uses an ‘intermediate ...