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The XCC C Compiler

A C23(C2X) C compiler.

JIT

Just In Time Compilation demo

Setting up your environment - Install LLVM

The main driver is tests/main.cpp.

XCC provides makefiles in tests directory.

In Windows, a MSYS2 installation is recommended for convenience(you can download binarys without building from source!).

you can install LLVM via

# MSYS2
$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-llvm

Also you install gdb debug tool.

$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb

In Debian and Ubuntu, https://apt.llvm.org/ provides llvm.sh can help you install LLVM and Clang.

Or use apt

sudo apt install llvm-15

Installing and Building

Install LLD include headers and static library files(.a)

$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-lld

Build XCC (assume you MSYS2 is installed in C:/msys64)

$ clang++ main.cpp -DCC_HAS_LLD -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS -D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/liblldWasm.a C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/liblldCOFF.a C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/liblldELF.a C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/liblldMachO.a C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/liblldMinGW.a C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/liblldCommon.a -lLLVM-15 -g C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/zlib1.dll

Install LLD via apt/dpkg

$ sudo apt install liblld-15 liblld-15-dev

Or building from source

$ git clone https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project llvm-project
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS=lld -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local ../llvm-project/llvm
$ make install

Finally, build XCC with GNU make.

$ make
$ make main
$ make testLexer
$ make testCpp
$ make testParser
$ make testCodeGen
$ make all
$ make all -j

Features

Dump colored AST

cdecl syntax

Expressive diagnostics

Include stack information

Supports Windows, WSL, Linux ...

Fix-it Hints

_Complex, _Imaginary support.

Support trigraphs(both two and three characters) in command line option -trigraphs.

Author

ianfun

References

Optimizations

remove unused variables

Alignment

Alignment affects size of objects.

root [0] struct alignas(void*) bar {};
root [1] alignof(bar)
(unsigned long) 8
root [2] struct foo {};
root [3] alignof(foo)
(unsigned long) 1
root [4] sizeof(foo)
(unsigned long) 1
root [5] sizeof(bar)
(unsigned long) 8

Alignments must be power of 2 and must less or equal than the object's size.

root [1] struct alignas(2) bar { int a; };
ROOT_prompt_1:1:8: error: requested alignment is less than minimum alignment of 4 for type 'bar'
struct alignas(2) bar { int a; };

Memory Leaks

Use AddressSanitizer to detect memory leaks.

TODO List

FeatureStatus
Atomic
Align
Ast Dump (Text)
Ast Dump (JSON)
Ast to .dot
LLVM IR Reader
LLVM BC Reader
LLVM Assembly Reader
LLVM Machine Code Writer
LLVM IR Writer
LLVM BC Writer
LLVM Assembly Writer
Complex Number
VLA
VLA in structure
GNU inline Assembly
Linking
Target builtin
Compiler(Other) builtin
Bit field
Record Layout
Union
OpenCL
VA_OPT
C23 _BitInt
C23 constexpr
C23 typeof
C23 nullptr
C23 attribute
GNU __attribute__
Interpreter/REPL
JIT Interpreter
Recover parsing error
Diagnostic
Source Manager
Macro expansion location
Constant Folding
Vararg (All platforms)