A Compiler for the Grace Progamming Lanuage 📈

Compiler Features 👀

optimising 💀
llvm backend 🔨
the integer type is implemented in 64-bits only (its 2024)
strings can contain unicode characters 😂👌

About the Grace Language 🥵

it's like pascal and C
it has nested functions and call by reference
it has interesting comments
it supports strings and has some built in functions to manage them (included in the runtime library)
look at the spec to find out more 🖖
look bellow for example programs to get the idea of the language (or to use the compiler 🤭😳)

Repositories Containing Programs Written in Grace 🔢

More Resources for Grace 🤓

a plug in for vscode which includes syntax highlighting among other resources can be found here

About the Runtime Library 🚀

it is contained in libgrc 📁
it was based on this 🧎‍♀️
im not sure its makefile works correctly 🤔
it relies on C's library
it uses C's string functions directly

Installation 🔥

make -j3

then

make clean

removes all files produced but not need to run the executable (i.e. object files etc.) 🧴

LLVM Configuration Informtion 📋

The compiler has been tested to work under the following configuration, which may be required for the compiler to compile and/or run ⚠️

$ llvm-config --version
16.0.6
$ llvm-config --cxxflags
-I/usr/include -std=c++17   -fno-exceptions -D_GNU_SOURCE -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS -D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS
$ llvm-config --ldflags
-L/usr/lib
$ llvm-config --system-libs

$ llvm-config --libs all
-lLLVM-16

To uninstall 🥺

make distclean

Usage 🤯

./grc.py [flags] program.grc

produces the executable program (files are not required to end in .grc 📄)

❗ if flags -i or -f are not set, then two more files are produced:

program.ll - contains llvm ir
program.s - contains assembly

Flags 😏

-O optimise 💀
-f final code 🤖 - read prorgam from stdin and put final code in stdout
-i intermediate code 👽 - read prorgam from stdin and put intermediate code in stdout

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