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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1990
Paul Chan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Manoj Dadoo, San Jose, CA (US);
Karl Pettis, San Jose, CA (US);
Vatsa Santhanan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer software compiler system and method for distributing a machine independent computer program, created on a native computer platform, to heterogeneous target computer platforms. The system is comprised of a producer component and one or more installer components. The producer component receives the machine independent computer program as input and generates a compiler intermediate representation in a machine independent manner according to an HPcode-Plus compiler intermediate language. The compiler intermediate representation is architecture neutral and represents an architecture neutral distribution format (ANDF). The compiler intermediate representation is distributed to heterogeneous target computer platforms where the installer components reside. The installer components receive the compiler intermediate representation as input and generate object code representations in a machine dependent manner according to the HPcode-Plus compiler intermediate language, such that the object code representations are architecture dependent, or machine dependent, on the target computer platforms.