SLE 2024 paper:
The Design of a Self-Compiling C Transpiler Targeting POSIX Shell

Laurent Huberdeau, Cassandre Hamel, Stefan Monnier, Marc Feeley

DOI: 10.1145/3687997.3695639
T4C: Vertical Transformation
- The work centers on a compilation/transpilation pipeline from (a subset of) C down to POSIX shell code.
T2D: Deployment
- Targeting POSIX shell is motivated by portability and deployability on minimal Unix-like environments.
T3D: GPLs
- It directly concerns general-purpose languages (C and POSIX shell) rather than a narrowly scoped DSL.
T5F: Performance
- A key concern is the practicality/efficiency of generated shell code and the bootstrapped compiler.

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