Company type | Private |
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Industry | Software |
Founded | 1988 [1] |
Headquarters | Scotch Plains, New Jersey |
Key people | J. Stephen Adamczyk John Spicer Daveed Vandevoorde |
Products | Compiler front ends |
Number of employees | 6 |
Website | www |
The Edison Design Group (EDG) is an American company that makes compiler front ends (preprocessing and parsing) for C++ and formerly Java and Fortran. [2] [3] Their front ends are widely used in commercially available compilers and code analysis tools. Users include the Intel C++ compiler, [4] Microsoft Visual C++ (IntelliSense), NVIDIA CUDA Compiler, SGI MIPSpro, The Portland Group, and Comeau C++. [5] They are widely known for having the first, and likely only, front end to implement the unused until C++20 [6] export
keyword of C++. [7] [8] [9] [10]
EDG was founded in 1988 in New Jersey by J. Stephen "Steve" Adamczyk, a 1974 B.S. graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a 1977 M.S. graduate of the Indiana University Bloomington, and an experienced compiler engineer who had worked for Advanced Computer Techniques in New York City. [1] [11]
Other employees include John Spicer and Daveed Vandevoorde.