Re: C compiler front end wanted

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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