CIL is a front-end for the C programming language that facilitates program analysis and transformation. CIL will parse and typecheck a program, and compile it into a simplified subset of C.
goblint-cil is a fork of CIL that supports C99 as well as most of the
extensions of the GNU C. It makes many changes to the original CIL in an effort
to modernize it and keep up with the latest versions of the C language. Here is
an incomplete list of some of the ways goblint-cil improves upon CIL:
- Proper support for C99, (#9) and VLAs in particular (#5, #7)
- It uses Zarith instead of the deprecated Num
- Support for more recent OCaml versions (≥ 4.06)
- Large integer constants that do not fit in an OCaml
intare represented as astringinstead of getting truncated - Syntactic search extension (#21)
- Some warnings were made optional
- Unmaintained extensions (#30) were removed
- Many bug fixes
Install the latest release of goblint-cil with opam:
opam install goblint-cil
Read the excellent CIL tutorial by Zachary Anderson, much of which
still applies to goblint-cil. The repository referenced in that document has now moved here.
ATTENTION: Don't install the cil package. This is the unmaintained
original version of CIL.
Prerequisites:
- opam
- Some C compiler (preferably
gcc) - Perl
First create a local opam switch and install all dependencies:
opam switch create .
Then, run the following commands to build and install goblint-cil:
./configure
make
make test # runs the regression test suite, optional
make install # as root or using sudo
If you want to install to some other directory, you can tweak the prefix during the configure step. For instance, to install in your local opam directory:
./configure --prefix=`opam config var prefix`
Alternatively, you can use dune to build goblint-cil. Run the following
commands to build and test goblint-cil:
dune build
dune runtest # runs the regression test suite
You can use cilly (installed in /usr/local/bin by default) as a drop-in
replacement for gcc to compile and link your programs.
You can also use goblint-cil as a library to write your own programs. For
instance in the OCaml toplevel using Findlib:
$ ocaml
Objective Caml version 4.00.1
# #use "topfind";;
[...]
# #require "cil";;
[...]
# Cil.cilVersion;;
- : string = "1.8.1"
- C11 support (#13)
goblint-cil is licensed under the BSD license. See LICENSE.