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diff --git a/clang/README.txt b/clang/README.txt index 2d5ad714fb4..f0ff21d06d5 100644 --- a/clang/README.txt +++ b/clang/README.txt @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// // C Language Family Front-end //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// + Chris Lattner I. Introduction: @@ -24,17 +25,22 @@ I. Introduction: libsupport - Basic support library, reused from LLVM. libsystem - System abstraction library, reused from LLVM. - libbasic - Diagnostics, Tokens, Locations, SourceBuffer abstraction, - file system caching for read source files. - liblex - C/C++/ObjC lexing and preprocessing. - libparse - C99 (for now), eventually ObjC + C90 parsing as well. This - library invokes coarse-grained 'Actions' provided by the client - to do stuff (great idea shamelessly stolen from Devkit by - snaroff). C++ can be added, but not a high priority. + libbasic - Diagnostics, SourceLocations, SourceBuffer abstraction, + file system caching for input source files. + liblex - C/C++/ObjC lexing and preprocessing, identifier hash table, + pragma handling, tokens, and macros. + libparse - C99 (for now) parsing and local semantic analysis. This library + invokes coarse-grained 'Actions' provided by the client to do + stuff (great idea shamelessly stolen from Devkit). ObjC/C90 + need to be added soon, K&R C and C++ can be added in the + future, but are not a high priority. libast - Provides a set of parser actions to build a standardized AST for programs. AST can be built in two forms: streamlined and 'complete' mode, which captures *full* location info for every - token in the AST. + token in the AST. AST's are 'streamed' out a top-level + declaration at a time, allowing clients to use decl-at-a-time + processing, build up entire translation units, or even build + 'whole program' ASTs depending on how the use the APIs. libast2llvm - [Planned] Lower the AST to LLVM IR for optimization & codegen. clang - An example client of the libraries at various levels. |
