An experimental C compiler.

This is a project that attempts to become a fully fledged C compiler. It is currently Turing Complete and can be linked in to any other library.

It currently has no support for C's type system, all types are just 64-bit numbers. It has no structs, unions, or enums. All pointers are the same as int. Because of the lack of a type system but the need to know when to allocate a variable, a type must be given to declare a variable but that type is ignored.

You can clone the git repository with the following command:

git clone https://github.com/kcolford/compiler.git

Access to a distribution tar ball is currently only available through someone who has already downloaded a clone of the repository.

Copyright (C) 2014 Kieran Colford

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

In order to use this project you need the following list of installed programs,

• Autoconf*
• Autoconf Archive*
• AutoGen*
• Automake*
• Bash
• Bison*
• Doxygen+
• Flex*
• GCC
• GIT*
• Help2man*+
• Make
• Perl+
• Tar
• Valgrind (Optional)

*: Only required if you're a developer or acquired the source from a source repository.

+: Only required for generating documentation.

The first step to working on or using Compiler is if you retrieved the sources from a checkout repository you have to run the bootstrap script like this,

./bootstrap

With this done, you can now run the configure script and make,

./configure && make

For more information, read the INSTALL file distributed with this package.

If you don't know how Compiler works, read through the documentation. It has all been generated with Doxygen and thus should be easy to generate read through. To generate the documentation, just run:

make html

If you can't think of something to work on, see the Doxygen generated Todo List.

Alternatively, you can work on Compiler's general documentation in the README.md.

Additional documentation was provided by gnulib in TeXinfo format. This is temporarily translated into markdown by the Perl script texi2md.pl and then fed into Doxygen's native markdown processor.

The texi2md.pl script is distributed along with the source code for Compiler and can be found in a git repository at https://github.com/kcolford/texi2md. It also only alters the TeXinfo markup (translating it to markdown). Thus it satisfies all requirements of verbatim copying as described by the GNU Free Documentation License.