Re: New C compiler and analyzer lang/cparser in ports

On Thursday 27 November 2008 21:39:45 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.

Nice stuff! I remember from a practical work with libFIRM that it is quite
pleasant to work with (though there is a bit of a learning curve).

How are the chances of this code staying under GPL2? I suppose there is no
chance to get it dual-licensed under BSDL as well?

In addition, how much work is it to build missing backends? It seems like
there is no amd64 or sparc support at the moment?

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