Re: C compiler front end wanted

Richard Pennington <rich@pennware.com>
Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:18:35 -0500

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From: Richard Pennington <rich@pennware.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:18:35 -0500
Organization: at&t http://my.att.net/
References: 08-06-027
Keywords: C, parse, AST
Posted-Date: 15 Jun 2008 16:37:07 EDT

David Given wrote:
> I'm working on a C based tool that needs to operate of a full C AST ---
[snip]
> So far, my research has shown up a few tools like ctool, which
> generates annotated parse trees but don't do full type analysis and
> program verification; things like elsa, which is really designed for
> C++ and as such is grotesquely overcomplicated for what I want (and
> also, I can't make it build);
[snip]


You may want to take another look at Elsa. I've been successful using
Elsa as a C front end for LLVM. I can compile most of C (e.g. bzip2,
etc.) to a running program after a couple of weeks of work.


What sort of problems have you encountered building Elsa? It compiled
cleanly for me an my Linux box.


-Rich


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