fcd

First Impression

fcd was a “bachelor’s project” (capstone…?) for a single person a few years ago. Because of this, I question the quality of it. However, it is still being maintained and appears to be in decent working order. I also love that the main issue that he seems to be facing is the exact issue that we are trying to solve with out project. FCD is also an entire compiler that uses llvm, which means we may be able to use it for both the bin => llvm and the llvm => c portions of our project.

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Building fcd

fcd was much easier to build than many other projects. It was a little hard to find the instructions, but once I did, it built in way less time than llvm-mctoll and other projects I have looked at. This is mostly because it does not depend on llvm and clang source like other projects often due. I would much prefer to use a project of this style than part of an llvm toolset.

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What is produced

Unsure of the quality at this time as it is difficult to inspect the intermediate statges.