ReFlEx README File
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WELCOME!

The ReFlEx macro expander is an experimental machine-level
code generation tool. In this document, we specify how you
can obtain more information about ReFlEx technology.

To obtain the ReFlEx 1.0 program with the associated
technical documentation, see the ASCII text file

   ftp://saturn.hut.fi/pub/reflex/ReFlEx-1

Additionally, there are the following ReFlEx-related
publications (or manuscripts) available:

ftp://saturn.hut.fi/pub/reflex/icfp97.ps.Z
   Eero Lassila. A functional macro expansion system for
   optimizing code generation: gaining context-sensitivity
   without losing confluence. In Proceedings of the 1997
   ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional
   Programming (ICFP '97; Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
   June 9-11, 1997), p. 315 (an extended abstract of a
   poster presentation). ISBN 0-89791-918-1. ACM Press,
   New York (New York, U.S.A.), 1997.

ftp://saturn.hut.fi/pub/reflex/A42.ps.Z
   Eero Lassila. Towards optimizing code generation by
   domain-sensitive macro expansion. Helsinki University
   of Technology, Digital Systems Laboratory, Series A:
   Research Reports, No. 42. ISBN 951-22-3439-4 (ISSN
   0783-5396). 100 pp. Espoo (Finland), January 1997.
   (Licentiate's Thesis of the author.)

ftp://saturn.hut.fi/pub/reflex/dsl97-s.ps.Z
   Eero Lassila. On domain-specific macro expansion and its
   use in optimizing code generation. Manuscript.
   19 pp. October 1996.

ftp://saturn.hut.fi/pub/reflex/euromicro96.ps.Z
   Eero Lassila. A macro expansion approach to embedded
   processor code generation. In Peter Milligan and Krzysztof
   Kuchcinski, (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Euromicro
   Conference (Prague, Czech Republic; September 2-5, 1996),
   pp. 136-142. ISBN 0-8186-7487-3 (ISSN 1089-6503). IEEE
   Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (California, U.S.A.),
   1996.

ftp://saturn.hut.fi/pub/reflex/B15.ps.Z
   Eero Lassila. ReFlEx---an experimental tool for special-
   purpose processor code generation. Helsinki University
   of Technology, Digital Systems Laboratory, Series B:
   Technical Reports, No. 15. ISBN 951-22-2993-5 (ISSN
   0783-540X). 79 pp. Espoo (Finland), March 1996.

ftp://saturn.hut.fi/pub/reflex/wicca96.ps.Z
   Eero Lassila. A macro expansion approach to embedded
   processor code generation. In presentation material of
   Workshop on Interaction between Compilers and Computer
   Architecture (San Jose, California, U.S.A.; February 4,
   1996), organized in conjunction with Second International
   Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture.
   12 pp. 1996.

The above documents can be reached via anonymous ftp
(binary transfer mode should be selected). For each
transferred <file>.ps.Z file, the following UNIX
decompression command reproduces the original <file>.ps
postscript file:

   uncompress <file>.ps.Z

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Date of this document: July 1, 1997
Author of this document: Eero Lassila (eero.lassila@hut.fi)

You can reach the latest revision of this document through
the World Wide Web or via anonymous ftp. It is located as

   ftp://saturn.hut.fi/pub/reflex/README