| [cdt-dev] LLVM 2.8 released |
LLVM 2.8 has been released, which includes full support for C++ and a full libc++ standard library. Unlike GCC, which is GPL, LLVM is under a BSD license and so can be used in tools as a means to compile, parse and introspect code. The AST is traversable via C++ and since it's a modular architecture, the new LLDB debugger also uses the same parser for source code navigation (unlike GDB which has its own parser separate from GCC). I've written about it at InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/10/llvm-2.8 but there's more info at the release notes: http://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#whatsnew Here's the links to the various sub projects which may be of interest: http://clang.llvm.org/ - the Clang compiler, for C/C++/Objective-C source http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/ - Clang static analyzer for above http://lldb.llvm.org/ - the LLDB debugger http://libcxx.llvm.org/ - libc++, the standard library for c++ code http://klee.llvm.org/ - the KLEE symbolic evaluation engine for code checking There's a GCC front end to Clang, which gives Clang the appearance of a GCC compiler. That may be useful for hooking it in to CDT. Alex