Register Transfer Language
(RTL) 1. A kind of
hardware description language (HDL) used in describing the
registers of a computer or digital electronic system, and the way in which data is transferred between them.
2.
An intermediate code for a machine with an infinite number of
registers, used for machine-independent optimisation. RTL was developed by Chris Fraser <
[email protected]> and J. Davidson <
[email protected]> at the
University of Arizona in the early 1980s.
RTL is used by the
GNU C compiler,
gcc and by Davidson's VPCC (Very Portable C compiler).
["Quick Compilers Using Peephole Optimisation", Davidson et al, Soft. Prac. & Exp. 19(1):79-97 (Jan 1989)].
