[i_don_t_know]

Wirth’s book on Compiler Construction is available at https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/CompilerConstruction/index....

The relevant section is 10.2. But its mechanism is the “inverse” of destination driven code generation as I understand it. In Wirth’s Item approach the callee picks a location and tells the caller where to look. Whereas in destination driven code generation the caller tells the callee where to put the result.

[lboasso]

You are right, but as you can see at page 11 (Figure 4 rightmost AST) of The Oberon System Family paper [0], Wirth's approach was extended to "hint" destinations as well.

[0] https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20....

[i_don_t_know]

Thanks for the pointer! I didn’t know that.