Re: [CIL users] Inlining C-functions

[<Chr...@pa...>]

George,

>    It is a good idea to have an inliner in the CIL distribution.

This is exactly what I wanted to hear.  An inliner makes CIL much
more valuable as a toolkit for source-to-source transformations
and it might prove helpful with non-transforming analyses.


> I expect our users to contribute (and maintain) extensions.
> Very little of this has been happening, unfortunately.

I expected a raise this year.  Very little...  :-/

But seriously, the audience for the CIL-system is small compared
to, e.g. Linux or Perl.  Moreover, the problems to be solved with
it are anything but trivial.  There ain't no "Hello, world!" in this
domain, we have to cope with the intricacies of C.  CIL does an
excellent job in simplifying plain C and providing a substantial
user-interface for analysis and transformation.  Still only very
few programmers have the interest and the skill to write CIL
extensions suitable for the mainline.


/Chris

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Dr. Christoph L. Spiel
BMW Forschungs- und Innovationszentrum, EA-410
Lauchstaedter Strasse 5, 80995 Muenchen