New C compiler and analyzer lang/cparser in ports

Eygene Ryabinkin rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru
Thu Nov 27 13:14:47 PST 2008


Christoph, good day.

Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 09:39:45PM +0100, Christoph Mallon wrote:
> A few days ago libFIRM[1] and cparser were added to the ports tree. If
> you want to see, what other compilers besides GCC have to offer, this
> might be of interest for you. libFIRM is a modern optimizing
> intermediate representation (IR) library. cparser is a C compiler
> providing many useful warnings and uses libFIRM for optimization and
> code generation.
[...]

The whole description looks like that of LLVM GCC port, http://llvm.org/
Do you know something about that project and if yes, could you, please,
provide brief comparison of these two?

Thanks!
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Eygene
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