- Introduction
The Firm library implements the Firm intermediate representation (ir). An old description of Firm can be found in [TLB:99].
libFirm contains algorithms for construction of the SSA form directly from the attributed syntax tree. A set of analyses and optimisation phases is provided. This version includes a complete backend for the IA32 architecture, as well as some unfinished backends for SPARC, ARM
-
works exculsively on a graph based SSA represenation up to the code emission. Based on the work of C. Click and M. Trapp
-
written in portable C. Known to run on msvc 6-8 Win32, gcc on Linux, FreeBSD, Cygwin
-
includes doxygen documentation
-
support for object oriented type hierarchies
-
Analyses: dominance, loop tree, execution frequency, control dependencies, inter procedural call graph, rapid type, def-use, alias analysis, class hierarchy analysis, ...
-
Optimisations: constant folding, local common subexpression elimination, global common subexpression elimination, code placement, operator strength reduction, scalar replacement, load/store, control flow optimisations, if-conversion, partial condition evaluation, reassociation, tail recursion elimination, inlining, procedure cloning, dead code elimination, ...
-
local common subexpression eliminiation, constant folding, constant propagatation, arithmetic identities happen implicitely
-
extensive checkers
-
enhanced debugging support: breakpoints on node creation, entity creation, graph dumping, visual studio debug extension
-
lowering of intrinsics, double word arithmetics, bitfields
-
backend with SSA based register allocation including several algorithms for spilling and copy coalescing. Instruction and block scheduling, support for ABI handling.
-
working ia32 backend with support for x87 and SSE2 floating point
-
unfinished backends for SPARC, ARM
-
connections to the Edison Design Group C and java frontends available.
- Building and Installation
Prerequisites for the build:
- python (>=2.4)
- perl
- an ANSI C89 compiler (gcc, msvc known to work)
Building on unix variants/cygwin:
-
Change into the directory containing libfirms source
-
Create a directory named build 'mkdir build'. Change into this directory and execute the configure script. 'cd build ; ../configure'
-
Type 'make' to compile the package
-
You may install libfirm as super user by typing 'make install'
-
Usage
To generate FIRM code from a compiler frontend read the documentation "libFIRM: A Library for Compiler Optimization Reaserch Implementing Firm", UKA tech-report 2002-5. About Firm you can learn in UKA tech-report 1999-14.
- Contact
You can contact us at [email protected]
There's a mailing list here: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libfirm-user
We have a bugtracker at: http://pp.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/~firm/bugs