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The Specification and Description Language (SDL-2000) has formal definitions for syntax, well-formedness, and dynamic semantics. While these definitions have well-understood mathematical foundations, engineers prefer to execute formal definitions, instead of studying them on paper.We present a tool chain which starts with the formal definition, and translates that into a compiler. The resulting compiler starts with a textual representation of the specification, and produces a program in the underlying formal calculus (Abstract State Machines, ASM). The ASM program, when executed, produces a trace of the SDL specification according to the formal language definition. In the process of developing this compiler, a number of errors were found in the formal semantics, which have been corrected.
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Prinz, A., v. Löwis, M. (2003). Generating a Compiler for SDL from the Formal Language Definition. In: Reed, R., Reed, J. (eds) SDL 2003: System Design. SDL 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2708. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45075-0_9
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