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 directly from the
+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 mips, arm, ppc32.
+This version includes a complete backend for the IA32 architecture, as well as
+some unfinished backends for MIPS, ARM, PPC32.
1.1. Features
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...
+ inlining, procedure cloning, dead code elimination, ...
- local common subexpression eliminiation, constant folding,
constant propagatation, arithmetic identities happen implicitely
- extensive checkers
2. Building and Installation
-These are instruction for the gcc compiler on unix variants or cygwin. You need
-to have the libcore library and pkg-config installed.
+These are instruction for the gcc compiler on unix variants or cygwin.
1. Change into the directory containing libfirms source
4. Contact
-You can contact us at firm@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de
+You can contact us at
+ firm@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de
+
+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