Typed Assembly Language
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- #Memory Safety
- #Compiler Optimization
- #Typed Assembly Language
- Typed Assembly Language (TAL) extends untyped assembly languages with typing annotations, memory management primitives, and sound typing rules.
- TAL's typing rules ensure memory safety, control flow safety, and type safety.
- TAL can encode various programming features like records, arrays, higher-order functions, exceptions, and modules.
- TAL supports low-level compiler optimizations, making it ideal for type-directed compilers.
- TAL is used in secure mobile code applications and extensible operating system kernels.
- A variant called TALx86 has been implemented for Intel's IA32 architecture.
- A compiler for a safe C-like language named Popcorn has been developed to target TALx86.