Rotluchs

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   by Rotluchs 11y ago

   We have an IRC channel (#firm on FreeNode), a mailing list (see libfirm.org) and there are github mirrors for cparser ( https://github.com/MatzeB/cparser ) and libfirm ( https://github.com/MatzeB/libf
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   by Rotluchs 11y ago

   Fixed, thanks for the report. (: (stupid gcc extensions sigh )
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   by Rotluchs 11y ago

   libFirm is not tied to compiling C. It is a more general intermediate representation library, which provides an API to attach a frontend, e.g. there is one for X10, too. Further, I doubt that we have enough good C compilers. 1. How except
4. 4.▲
   by Rotluchs 11y ago

   The main points of this (i.e my) post on the mailing list still apply. Nowadays everything is even more nice. (:
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   by Rotluchs 11y ago

   One important difference to LLVM is the backend (machine code generation). libFirm uses its graph-based intermediate representation with explicit data dependencies not only in the "middleend" (i.e. for architecture-independent o
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   by Rotluchs 11y ago

   It's sufficiently compatible to handle e.g. glibc, which is quite a feat, because it uses many and somewhat obscure gcc extensions.