[mercury-users] Mercury backends

[Fergus Henderson]

On 10-Mar-2003, little flower <flowerlittle at rediffmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to know about mercury back ends. What do you mean by 
> back ends?  From where can I get information regarding this.

In this context, the term "back end" refers to part of the Mercury compiler. 

The file
<http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mercury/information/doc-latest/compiler_design.html>
gives an overview of the Mercury compiler's design, breaking the
compilation process up into six stages.  The first three stages
constitute the "front end" of the compiler, while stages 4-6 constitute
the "back end".  In fact there are several different back-ends,
which can compile Mercury to a variety of different target languages.
For details on these, see
<http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mercury/backends.html>.

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