Compiler Construction, 17th International Conference, CC 2008, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 29 - April 6, 2008. Proceedings

Papers from Invited Talks.- Design Choices in a Compiler Course or How to Make Undergraduates Love Formal Notation.- Improved Memory-Access Analysis for x86 Executables.- Analyses and Transformations.- A System for Generating Static Analyzers for Machine Instructions.- IDE Dataflow Analysis in the Presence of Large Object-Oriented Libraries.- An Adaptive Strategy for Inline Substitution.- Automatic Transformation of Bit-Level C Code to Support Multiple Equivalent Data Layouts.- Compiling for Parallel Architectures.- Control Flow Emulation on Tiled SIMD Architectures.- Generating SIMD Vectorized Permutations.- Automatic Transformations for Communication-Minimized Parallelization and Locality Optimization in the Polyhedral Model.- Runtime Techniques and Tools.- How to Do a Million Watchpoints: Efficient Debugging Using Dynamic Instrumentation.- Compiler-Guaranteed Safety in Code-Copying Virtual Machines.- Hardware JIT Compilation for Off-the-Shelf Dynamically Reconfigurable FPGAs.- Visualization of Program Dependence Graphs.- Analyses.- On the Relative Completeness of Bytecode Analysis Versus Source Code Analysis.- Efficiency, Precision, Simplicity, and Generality in Interprocedural Data Flow Analysis: Resurrecting the Classical Call Strings Method.- Java Bytecode Verification for @NonNull Types.- Efficient Context-Sensitive Shape Analysis with Graph Based Heap Models.- Atomicity and Transactions.- Coqa: Concurrent Objects with Quantized Atomicity.- Keep Off the Grass: Locking the Right Path for Atomicity.- Supporting Legacy Binary Code in a Software Transaction Compiler with Dynamic Binary Translation and Optimization.