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Basic translation

After the pre-translation phase reduces a program to a suitable restricted form, the translation phase proper begins. This section describes the basic, unoptimized form of this translation.

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Translation functions and schemas
Translating variable declarations
Translating method declarations
- Methods that return multiarrays
Translating constructor declarations
Translating on constructs
Translating at constructs
Translating overall constructs
Translating global index expression
Translating variable accesses
Translating assignment expressions
Translating multiarray creation
- Creating distributed arrays
- Distributed array creation without the on clause
Translating element access
Translating array sections
- Scalar subscripts in sequential dimensions
- Scalar subscripts in distributed dimensions
Translating field accesses
Translating method invocations
- Methods that return multiarrays
- Translation of return statement
Translating constructor invocations
Translating distributed array restriction
Translating other statement expressions
Translating group restriction
Translating subrange expressions
Translating casts
Translating instanceof
Translating reference equality
Translating null
Support for generic library methods
- Generic element type

Bryan Carpenter 2003-04-15