Automatic Generation of Machine Emulators: Efficient Synthesis of Robust Virtual Machines for Legacy Software Migration
- Authors:
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- Franz, Michael ;
- Gal, Andreas ;
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Probst, Christian
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0000-0002-4947-355X
Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modeling, Technical University of Denmark
- Abstract:
- As older mainframe architectures become obsolete, the corresponding le- gacy software is increasingly executed via platform emulators running on top of more modern commodity hardware. These emulators are virtual machines that often include a combination of interpreters and just-in-time compilers. Implementing interpreters and compilers for each combination of emulated and target platform independently of each other is a redundant and error-prone task. We describe an alternative approach that automatically synthesizes specialized virtual-machine interpreters and just-in-time compilers, which then execute on top of an existing software portability platform such as Java. The result is a considerably reduced implementation effort.
- Type:
- Conference paper
- Language:
- English
- Published in:
- Proceedings of Software Engineering Conference (se2007), 2006, p. 83-94
- Keywords:
- Main Research Area:
- Science/technology
- Publication Status:
- Published
- Review type:
- Peer Review
- Conference:
- Software Engineering, 2006
- Submission year:
- 2007
- Scientific Level:
- Scientific
- ID:
- 2389441027
