The Cross Compiler is an excellent and valuable program development tool. It provides to the user a low level compiled language that allows character (byte), integer (8086 word) and pointer (8086 one word address) manipulation. It also allows recursion, has modern flow and a rich set of operators.The Communication Program which include file transfer utility allows the student to download or upload their C program to a PC. It allows use of the Modem. The file transferring can be done using XON/XOFF or XMODEM. It also supports INS 8250 UART chip, plus 16450 high speed device found in hardware such as IBM AT Serial/Parallel Adapter. / Department of Computer Science

Software for Moessbauer spectroscopy has been developed for use on the Apple computer. This software is capable of collecting and fitting Moessbauer data when the Apple computer is interfaced with the ND2200 series multichannel analyzer. The software was tested in a study of the feasibility of using Moessbauer spectroscopy to study glass. Results indicate that iron in brown commercial glass and the volcanic glasses behaves similarly. This study concludes that Moessbauer spectroscopy is a promising method for the study of natural and archeological glasses and quality control in the manufacture of commercial glass. / Department of Physics and Astronomy

Segment endpoint visibility graph is a representation scheme for art gallery problems, guard problems, and other shortest path or shortest circuit problems. In the research of visibility graphs, drawing graphs is a time-consuming task. VGE (Visibility Graphs Editor) is developed for visibility graphs reseacheres to create and modify graphs interactively in X-window environment. Appropriate graphics user interface allows the researcher to edit a graph, save and open a file, and make a hard copy of a graph. VGE is developed in C under X-window environment and using EZD[3] graphics tool. The thesis also discusses the uses of EZD. Although it is still only a prototype, VGE is a successful tool for analyzing visibility graphs. / Department of Computer Science

In this thesis a compiler called SPASCAL is implemented which translates source programs in a simple Pascal-like language called SPASCAL into target programs in the VAX assembly language. This thesis clearly describes the main aspects of a compiler: lexical analysis and syntactic analysis, including the symbol-table routines and the error-handling routines. This thesis uses regular expressions to define the lexical structure and a context-free grammar to define the syntactic structure of SPASCAL. The compiler is constructed using syntax-directed translation, context-free grammars and a set of semantic rules. SPASCAL Compiler is written with standard C in UNIX. / Department of Computer Science

This study will prove the fact that computers provide unprecedented opportunities to create music. Several distinct levels of computer participation can exist in the creative process. The lowest level, involving record-keeping functions, results in programs that serve as compositional aids. The intermediate level incorporates stochastic (literally "random") processes on a limited basis, and represents the midpoint between computer-assisted and computercomposed works. The highest level focuses on the design of algorithms that result in compositions determined in most of their details by stochastic processes and computer decision making. Although there is no clear dividing line between levels of computer/composer interaction, it is possible to characterize the degree to which the computer has provided outcomes for a given work, from low-level random generation of pitches to high-level Markovian chain distributions. / Department of Computer Science

Java decompilers convert Java class files to Java source. Common Java decompilers are javac-specific decompilers since they target bytecode produced from a particular javac compiler. We present work carried out on Dava, a tool-independent decompiler that decompiles bytecode produced from any compiler. A known deficiency of tool-independent decompilers is the generation of complicated decompiled Java source which does not resemble the original source as closely as output produced by javac-specific decompilers. This thesis tackles this short-coming, for Dava, by introducing a new back-end consisting of simplifying transformations. / The work presented can be broken into three major categories: transformations using tree traversals and pattern matching to simplify the control flow, the creation of a flow analysis framework for an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) representation of Java source code and the implementation of flow analyses with their use in complicated transformations. / The pattern matching transformations rewrite the ASTs to semantically-equivalent ASTs that correspond to code that is easier for programmers to understand. The targeted Java constructs include If and If-Else aggregation, for-loop creation and the removal of abrupt control flow. Pattern matching using tree traversals has its limitations. Thus, we introduce a new structure-based data flow analysis framework that can be used to gather information required by more complex transformations. Popular compiler analyses e.g., reaching definitions, constant propagation etc. were implemented using the framework. Information from these analyses is then leveraged to perform more advanced AST transformations. / We performed experiments comparing different decompiler outputs for different sources of bytecode. The results from these experiments indicate that the new Dava back-end considerably improves code comprehensibility and readability.

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Typescript (photocopy) / xii, 241 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Computing Science, 1980

Thesis (doctoral)--Tampere University of Technology, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-233). Also available on the World Wide Web.