Add a minimal C interpreter example.
- Demonstrates how to build a standalone tool which loads source code using the
Driver and Frontend libraries, and then uses CodeGen and the JIT to actually
execute the code.
- Still more complicated than it should be, but hey its only 153 lines. :)
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ddunbar@ozzy:tmp$ cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main() { printf("hello world\n"); return 0; }
ddunbar@ozzy:tmp$ clang-interpreter hello.c
hello world
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git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@97133 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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+This is an example of Clang based interpreter, for executing standalone C
+programs.
+
+It demonstrates the following features:
+ 1. Parsing standard compiler command line arguments using the Driver library.
+
+ 2. Constructing a Clang compiler instance, using the appropriate arguments
+ derived in step #1.
+
+ 3. Invoking the Clang compiler to lex, parse, syntax check, and then generate
+ LLVM code.
+
+ 4. Use the LLVM JIT functionality to execute the final module.
+
+The implementation has many limitations and is not designed to be a full fledged
+C interpreter. It is designed to demonstrate a simple but functional use of the
+Clang compiler libraries.