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rlm@421: In this thesis, I designed and implemented a compiler which performs
rlm@421: optimizations that reduce the number of low-level floating point operations
rlm@421: necessary for a specific task; this involves the optimization of chains of
rlm@421: floating point operations as well as the implementation of a ``fixed'' point
rlm@421: data type that allows some floating point operations to simulated with integer
rlm@421: arithmetic.  The source language of the compiler is a subset of C, and the
rlm@421: destination language is assembly language for a micro-floating point CPU.  An
rlm@421: instruction-level simulator of the CPU was written to allow testing of the
rlm@421: code.  A series of test pieces of codes was compiled, both with and without
rlm@421: optimization, to determine how effective these optimizations were.