Re: [Caml-list] Developper position: designing a C front-end in OCaml

[Wojciech Meyer <wojciech.meyer@gmail.com>]

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Hello,

So there are at least:

- cfront [1]
- yacfe [2]
- CIL

do we need yet another frontend in the compiler community? Just a
digression.

Wojciech

[1] http://www.irit.fr/recherches/ARCHI/MARCH/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=61
[2] http://padator.org/software-yacfe.php





On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Basile Starynkevitch <
basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:31:17PM +0200, Xavier Rival wrote:
> >
> > We are looking for an experienced OCaml developper in order to
> > design front-end components for a static analyzer developped as part
> > of the MemCAD ERC project (http://www.di.ens.fr/~rival/memcad.html).
>
>
> If you want to develop in Ocaml CIL is definitely a possible way to go
> (and you could also code a Frama-C plugin, hence taking advantage of
> existing Frama-C infrastructure). If it does not fit all of
> your needs, please contribute your enhancements to it.
>
> Alternatively, Did you consider working inside GCC, perhaps thru a plugin,
> perhaps using MELT, a domain specific language to extend GCC, see
> http://gcc-melt.org/ ?
> you could take advantage of existing GCC infrastructure, in particular
> add some analysis pass after some existing GCC optimizing passes which
> would have already done some transformations (And MELT is not Ocaml,
> but a Lisp-like language, notably enabling you to code in a
> functional style - more than if you did your GCC extension in C++03).
>
> At last you could work with CompCert http://compcert.inria.fr/
> which can be viewed as a C compiler coded in Ocaml (although it is much
> more
> than that).
>
> Regards.
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