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\begin{document}
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\title{CIL: Infrastructure for C Program Analysis and Transformation}
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\section{Introduction}

CIL has a Source Forge page: 
   \ahreftop{http://sourceforge.net/projects/cil}
            {http://sourceforge.net/projects/cil}. 

 CIL ({\bf C} {\bf I}ntermediate {\bf L}anguage) is a high-level representation
along with a set of tools that permit easy analysis and source-to-source
transformation of C programs.

 CIL is both lower-level than abstract-syntax trees, by clarifying ambiguous
constructs and removing redundant ones, and also higher-level than typical
intermediate languages designed for compilation, by maintaining types and a
close relationship with the source program. The main advantage of CIL is that
it compiles all valid C programs into a few core constructs with a very clean
semantics. Also CIL has a syntax-directed type system that makes it easy to
analyze and manipulate C programs. Furthermore, the CIL front-end is able to
process not only ANSI-C programs but also those using Microsoft C or GNU C
extensions. If you do not use CIL and want instead to use just a C parser and
analyze programs expressed as abstract-syntax trees then your analysis will
have to handle a lot of ugly corners of the language (let alone the fact that
parsing C itself is not a trivial task). See \secref{simplec} for some
examples of such extreme programs that CIL simplifies for you.

 In essence, CIL is a highly-structured, ``clean'' subset of C. CIL features a
reduced number of syntactic and conceptual forms. For example, all looping
constructs are reduced to a single form, all function bodies are given
explicit {\tt return} statements, syntactic sugar like {\tt "->"} is
eliminated and function arguments with array types become pointers. (For an
extensive list of how CIL simplifies C programs, see \secref{cabs2cil}.)
This reduces the number of cases that must be considered when manipulating a C
program. CIL also separates type declarations from code and flattens scopes
within function bodies. This structures the program in a manner more amenable
to rapid analysis and transformation. CIL computes the types of all program
expressions, and makes all type promotions and casts explicit. CIL supports
all GCC and MSVC extensions except for nested functions and complex numbers.
Finally, CIL organizes C's imperative features into expressions, instructions
and statements based on the presence and absence of side-effects and
control-flow. Every statement can be annotated with successor and predecessor
information. Thus CIL provides an integrated program representation that can
be used with routines that require an AST (e.g. type-based analyses and
pretty-printers), as well as with routines that require a CFG (e.g., dataflow
analyses). CIL also supports even lower-level representations (e.g.,
three-address code), see \secref{Extension}. 

 CIL comes accompanied by a number of Perl scripts that perform generally
useful operations on code:
\begin{itemize}
\item A \ahrefloc{sec-driver}{driver} which behaves as either the \t{gcc} or
Microsoft VC compiler and can invoke the preprocessor followed by the CIL
application. The advantage of this script is that you can easily use CIL and
the analyses written for CIL with existing make files.
\item A \ahrefloc {sec-merger}{whole-program merger} that you can use as a
replacement for your compiler and it learns all the files you compile when you
make a project and merges all of the preprocessed source files into a single
one. This makes it easy to do whole-program analysis.
\item A \ahrefloc{sec-patcher}{patcher} makes it easy to create modified
copies of the system include files. The CIL driver can then be told to use
these patched copies instead of the standard ones.
\end{itemize}

 CIL has been tested very extensively. It is able to process the SPECINT95
benchmarks, the Linux kernel, GIMP and other open-source projects. All of
these programs are compiled to the simple CIL and then passed to \t{gcc} and
they still run! We consider the compilation of Linux a major feat especially
since Linux contains many of the ugly GCC extensions (see \secref{ugly-gcc}).
This adds to about 1,000,000 lines of code that we tested it on. It is also
able to process the few Microsoft NT device drivers that we have had access
to. CIL was tested against GCC's c-torture testsuite and (except for the tests
involving complex numbers and inner functions, which CIL does not currently
implement) CIL passes most of the tests. Specifically CIL fails 23 tests out
of the 904 c-torture tests that it should pass. GCC itself fails 19 tests. A
total of 1400 regression test cases are run automatically on each change to
the CIL sources.

 CIL is relatively independent on the underlying machine and compiler. When
you build it CIL will configure itself according to the underlying compiler.
However, CIL has only been tested on Intel x86 using the gcc compiler on Linux
and cygwin and using the MS Visual C compiler. (See below for specific
versions of these compilers that we have used CIL for.)

 The largest application we have used CIL for is
\ahreftop{../ccured/index.html}{CCured}, a compiler that compiles C code into
type-safe code by analyzing your pointer usage and inserting runtime checks in
the places that cannot be guaranteed statically to be type safe.  

 You can also use CIL to ``compile'' code that uses GCC extensions (e.g. the
Linux kernel) into standard C code.

 CIL also comes accompanies by a growing library of extensions (see
\secref{Extension}). You can use these for your projects or as examples of
using CIL. 

\t{PDF} versions of \ahref{CIL.pdf}{this manual} and the
\ahref{CIL-API.pdf}{CIL API} are available. However, we recommend the
\t{HTML} versions because the postprocessed code examples are easier to
view. 

 If you use CIL in your project, we would appreciate letting us know. If you
want to cite CIL in your research writings, please refer to the paper ``CIL:
Intermediate Language and Tools for Analysis and Transformation of C
Programs'' by George C. Necula, Scott McPeak, S.P. Rahul and Westley Weimer,
in ``Proceedings of Conference on Compilier Construction'', 2002.

\section{Installation}

 You need the following tools to build CIL:
\begin{itemize}
\item A Unix-like shell environment (with bash, perl, make, mv, cp,
  etc.). On Windows, you will need cygwin with those packages.
\item An ocaml compiler. You will need OCaml release 3.08 or higher to build
CIL. CIL has been tested on Linux and on Windows (where it can behave as
either Microsoft Visual C or gcc). On Windows, you can build CIL both with the
cygwin version of ocaml (preferred) and with the Win32 version of ocaml.
\item An underlying C compiler, which can be either gcc or Microsoft Visual C.
\end{itemize}

\begin{enumerate}
\item Get the source code.
\begin{itemize}
\item {\em Official distribution} (Recommended):
\begin{enumerate}
\item Download the CIL
    \ahref{http://sourceforge.net/projects/cil/files/cil/}{distribution}
    (latest version is
    \ahrefurl{http://sourceforge.net/projects/cil/files/cil/cil-\cilversion.tar.gz}).
    See the \secref{changes} for recent changes to the CIL distribution.
\item Unzip and untar the source distribution. This will create a directory
      called \t{cil} whose structure is explained below. \\
      \t{~~~~tar xvfz cil-\cilversion.tar.gz}
\end{enumerate}
\item {\em Git Repository}: \\
  Alternately, you can download an up to the minute version of CIL
  from our Subversion repository at:
\begin{verbatim}
    git clone git://cil.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/cil/cil
\end{verbatim}
There is also a Github mirror:
\begin{verbatim}
    git clone git://github.com/kerneis/cil.git
\end{verbatim}
However, the Git version may be less stable than the released
version.  See the Changes section of doc/cil.tex to see what's
changed since the last release.  There may be changes that aren't yet
documented in the .tex file or this website.

\end{itemize}
\item Enter the \t{cil} directory and run the \t{configure} script and then 
      GNU make to build the distribution. If you are on Windows, at least the
      \t{configure} step must be run from within \t{bash}. \\
      \hsp\verb!cd cil!\\
      \hsp\verb!./configure!\\
      \hsp\verb!make!\\
      \hsp\verb!make quicktest!\\

\item You should now find \t{cilly.asm.exe} in a subdirectory of \t{obj}. The
name of the subdirectory is either \t{x86\_WIN32} if you are using \t{cygwin}
on Windows or \t{x86\_LINUX} if you are using Linux (although you should be
using instead the Perl wrapper \t{bin/cilly}). Note that we do not have an
\t{install} make target and you should use Cil from the development
directory.
\end{enumerate}

 The \t{configure} script tries to find appropriate defaults for your system.
You can control its actions by passing the following arguments:
\begin{itemize}
\item \t{CC=foo} Specifies the path for the \t{gcc} executable. By default
whichever version is in the PATH is used. If \t{CC} specifies the Microsoft
\t{cl} compiler, then that compiler will be set as the default one. Otherwise,
the \t{gcc} compiler will be the default.
\end{itemize}

 CIL requires an underlying C compiler and preprocessor. CIL depends on the
underlying compiler and machine for the sizes and alignment of types. The
installation procedure for CIL queries the underlying compiler for
architecture and compiler dependent configuration parameters, such as the size
of a pointer or the particular alignment rules for structure fields. (This
means, of course, that you should re-run \t{./configure} when you move CIL to
another machine.)

We have tested CIL on the following compilers:

\begin{itemize}
\item On Windows, \t{cl} compiler version 12.00.8168 (MSVC 6),
  13.00.9466 (MSVC .Net), and 13.10.3077 (MSVC .Net 2003).  Run \t{cl}
  with no arguments to get the compiler version.  
\item On Windows, using \t{cygwin} and \t{gcc} version 2.95.3, 3.0,
  3.2, 3.3, and 3.4.
\item On Linux, using \t{gcc} version 2.95.3, 3.0, 3.2, 3.3, 4.0, and 4.1.
\end{itemize}

Others have successfully used CIL on x86 processors with Mac OS X,
FreeBSD and OpenBSD; on amd64 processors with FreeBSD; on SPARC
processors with Solaris; and on PowerPC processors with Mac OS X.  If
you make any changes to the build system in order to run CIL on your
platform, please send us a patch.

  \subsection{Building CIL on Windows with Microsoft Visual C}

 Some users might want to build a standalone CIL executable on Windows (an
executable that does not require cygwin.dll to run). You will need cygwin for
the build process only. Here is how we do it

\begin{enumerate}
\item Start with a clean CIL directory
\item Start a command-line window setup with the environment variables for
  Microsoft Visual Studio. You can do this by choosing Programs/Microsoft
  Visual Studio/Tools/Command Prompt. Check that you can run \t{cl}. 
\item Ensure that \t{ocamlc} refers to a Win32 version of ocaml. Run \t{ocamlc
  -v} and look at the path to the standard library. If you have several
  versions of ocaml, you must set the following variables:
   \begin{verbatim}
      set OCAMLWIN=C:/Programs/ocaml-win

      set OCAMLLIB=%OCAMLWIN%/lib
      set PATH=%OCAMLWIN%/bin;%PATH%
      set INCLUDE=%INCLUDE%;%OCAMLWIN%/inc
      set LIB=%LIB%;%OCAMLWIN%/lib;obj/x86_WIN32
   \end{verbatim}

\item Run \t{bash -c "./configure CC=cl"}.
\item Run \t{bash -c "make WIN32=1 quickbuild"}
\item Run \t{bash -c "make WIN32=1 NATIVECAML=1 cilly}
\item Run \t{bash -c "make WIN32=1 doc}
\item Run \t{bash -c "make WIN32=1 bindistrib-nocheck}
\end{enumerate}

 The above steps do not build the CIL library, but just the executable. The
last step will create a subdirectory \t{TEMP\_cil-bindistrib} that contains
everything that you need to run CIL on another machine. You will have to edit
manually some of the files in the \t{bin} directory to replace \t{CILHOME}.
The resulting CIL can be run with ActiveState Perl also. 


  \section{Distribution Contents}

The file \ahrefurl{distrib/cil-\cilversion.tar.gz} 
contains the complete source CIL distribution, 
consisting of the following files:

\begin{longtable}{lp{4in}}
\emph{Filename}   & \emph{Description} \\
\endhead
\endfoot
\t{Makefile.in}                 & \t{configure} source for the 
                                  Makefile that builds CIL/ \\
\t{configure}                   & The configure script. \\
\t{configure.in}                & The \t{autoconf} source for \t{configure}. \\
\t{config.guess} 		& Stuff required by \t{configure}. \\
\t{config.sub} 			& idem \\
\t{install-sh}	 		& idem \\
\\
\t{doc/}                        & HTML documentation of the CIL API. \\
\t{obj/}                        & Directory that will contain the compiled
                                   CIL modules and executables.\\
\t{bin/cilly.in}                & The \t{configure} source for a Perl script 
                                  that can be invoked with the 
                                  same arguments as either \t{gcc} or
                                  Microsoft Visual C and will convert the
                                  program to CIL, perform some simple
                                  transformations, emit it and compile it as
                                  usual. \\
\t{lib/CompilerStub.pm}         & A Perl class that can be used to write code
                                  that impersonates a compiler. \t{cilly}
                                  uses it.  \\
\t{lib/Merger.pm}               &  A subclass of \t{CompilerStub.pm} that can
                                  be used to merge source files into a single
                                  source file.\t{cilly}
                                  uses it. \\
\t{bin/patcher.in}              & A Perl script that applies specified patches
                                  to standard include files.\\
\\
\t{src/check.ml,mli}            & Checks the well-formedness of a CIL file. \\
\t{src/cil.ml,mli}              & Definition of CIL abstract syntax and
                                   utilities for manipulating it.\\
\t{src/clist.ml,mli}            & Utilities for efficiently managing lists
                                   that need to be concatenated often.\\
\t{src/errormsg.ml,mli}         & Utilities for error reporting. \\
\t{src/ext/heapify.ml}          & A CIL transformation that moves array local
                                   variables from the stack to the heap. \\
\t{src/ext/logcalls.ml,mli}     & A CIL transformation that logs every
                                   function call. \\
\t{src/ext/sfi.ml}              & A CIL transformation that can log every
                                   memory read and write. \\
\t{src/frontc/clexer.mll}       & The lexer. \\
\t{src/frontc/cparser.mly}      & The parser. \\
\t{src/frontc/cabs.ml}          & The abstract syntax. \\
\t{src/frontc/cprint.ml}        & The pretty printer for CABS. \\
\t{src/frontc/cabs2cil.ml}      & The elaborator to CIL. \\
\t{src/main.ml}                 & The \t{cilly} application. \\
\t{src/pretty.ml,mli}           & Utilities for pretty printing. \\
\t{src/rmtmps.ml,mli}           & A CIL tranformation that removes unused
                                  types, variables and inlined functions. \\
\t{src/stats.ml,mli}            & Utilities for maintaining timing statistics.
\\
\t{src/testcil.ml}              & A random test of CIL (against the resident 
                                  C compiler).\\
\t{src/trace.ml,mli}            & Utilities useful for printing debugging
                                   information.\\
\\
\t{ocamlutil/}                  & Miscellaneous libraries that are not
                                  specific to CIL. \\
\t{ocamlutil/Makefile.ocaml}    & A file that is included by \t{Makefile}. \\
\t{ocamlutil/perfcount.c}       & C code that links with src/stats.ml
                                  and reads Intel performance
                                  counters. \\
\\
\t{obj/@ARCHOS@/feature\_config.ml}  & File generated by the Makefile
                                      describing which extra ``features''
                                      to compile. See \secref{cil}. \\
\t{obj/@ARCHOS@/machdep.ml}     & File generated by the Makefile containing
                                  information about your architecture,
                                  such as the size of a pointer. \\
\t{src/machdep-ml.c}            & C program that generates
                                  \t{machdep.ml} files. \\
\end{longtable}


\section{Compiling C to CIL}\label{sec-cabs2cil}

 In this section we try to describe a few of the many transformations that are
applied to a C program to convert it to CIL. The module that implements this
conversion is about 5000 lines of OCaml code. In contrast a simple program
transformation that instruments all functions to keep a shadow stack of the
true return address (thus preventing stack smashing) is only 70 lines of code.
This example shows that the analysis is so much simpler because it has to
handle only a few simple C constructs and also because it can leverage on CIL
infrastructure such as visitors and pretty-printers.

 In no particular order these are a few of the most significant ways in which
C programs are compiled into CIL:
\begin{enumerate}
\item CIL will eliminate all declarations for unused entities. This means that
just because your hello world program includes \t{stdio.h} it does not mean
that your analysis has to handle all the ugly stuff from \t{stdio.h}.

\item Type specifiers are interpreted and normalized:
\begin{cilcode}[global]
int long signed x;
signed long extern x;
long static int long y;

// Some code that uses these declaration, so that CIL does not remove them
int main() { return x + y; }
\end{cilcode}

\item Anonymous structure and union declarations are given a name. 
\begin{cilcode}[global]
 struct { int x; } s;
\end{cilcode}

\item Nested structure tag definitions are pulled apart. This means that all
structure tag definitions can be found by a simple scan of the globals.

\begin{cilcode}[global]
struct foo {
   struct bar {
      union baz { 
          int x1; 
          double x2;
      } u1;
      int y;
   } s1;
   int z;
} f;
\end{cilcode}

\item All structure, union, enumeration definitions and the type definitions
from inners scopes are moved to global scope (with appropriate renaming). This
facilitates moving around of the references to these entities.

\begin{cilcode}[global]
int main() {
  struct foo { 
        int x; } foo; 
  {
     struct foo { 
        double d;
     };
     return foo.x;
  }      
}
\end{cilcode}

\item Prototypes are added for those functions that are called before being
defined. Furthermore, if a prototype exists but does not specify the type of
parameters that is fixed. But CIL will not be able to add prototypes for those
functions that are neither declared nor defined (but are used!).
\begin{cilcode}[global]
  int f();  // Prototype without arguments
  int f(double x) {
      return g(x);
  }
  int g(double x) {
     return x;
  } 
\end{cilcode}

\item Array lengths are computed based on the initializers or by constant
folding.
\begin{cilcode}[global]
  int a1[] = {1,2,3};
  int a2[sizeof(int) >= 4 ? 8 : 16];
\end{cilcode}

\item Enumeration tags are computed using constant folding:
\begin{cilcode}[global]
int main() {
  enum { 
     FIVE = 5, 
     SIX, SEVEN, 
     FOUR = FIVE - 1, 
     EIGHT = sizeof(double)
  } x = FIVE;
 return x;
}

\end{cilcode}

\item Initializers are normalized to include specific initialization for the
missing elements:
\begin{cilcode}[global]
  int a1[5] = {1,2,3};
  struct foo { int x, y; } s1 = { 4 };
\end{cilcode}

\item Initializer designators are interpreted and eliminated. Subobjects are
properly marked with braces. CIL implements
the whole ISO C99 specification for initializer (neither GCC nor MSVC do) and
a few GCC extensions. 
\begin{cilcode}[global]
  struct foo { 
     int x, y; 
     int a[5];
     struct inner {
        int z;
     } inner;
  } s = { 0, .inner.z = 3, .a[1 ... 2] = 5, 4, y : 8 };
\end{cilcode}

\item String initializers for arrays of characters are processed

\begin{cilcode}[global]
char foo[] = "foo plus bar";
\end{cilcode}

\item String constants are concatenated

\begin{cilcode}[global]
char *foo = "foo " " plus " " bar ";
\end{cilcode}

\item Initializers for local variables are turned into assignments. This is in
order to separate completely the declarative part of a function body from the
statements. This has the unfortunate effect that we have to drop the \t{const}
qualifier from local variables !

\begin{cilcode}[local]
  int x = 5; 
  struct foo { int f1, f2; } a [] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
\end{cilcode}

\item Local variables in inner scopes are pulled to function scope (with
appropriate renaming). Local scopes thus disappear. This makes it easy to find
and operate on all local variables in a function.

\begin{cilcode}[global]
  int x = 5; 
  int main() {
    int x = 6;
    { 
      int x = 7;
      return x;
    }
    return x;
  } 
\end{cilcode}

\item Global declarations in local scopes are moved to global scope:
\begin{cilcode}[global]
  int x = 5; 
  int main() {
    int x = 6;
    { 
      static int x = 7;
      return x;
    }
    return x;
  } 
\end{cilcode}

\item Return statements are added for functions that are missing them. If the
return type is not a base type then a \t{return} without a value is added.
The guaranteed presence of return statements makes it easy to implement a
transformation that inserts some code to be executed immediately before
returning from a function.
\begin{cilcode}[global]
  int foo() {
    int x = 5;
  } 
\end{cilcode}

\item One of the most significant transformations is that expressions that
contain side-effects are separated into statements. 

\begin{cilcode}[local]
   int x, f(int);
   return (x ++ + f(x));
\end{cilcode}

 Internally, the \t{x ++} statement is turned into an assignment which the
pretty-printer prints like the original. CIL has only three forms of basic
statements: assignments, function calls and inline assembly.

\item Shortcut evaluation of boolean expressions and the \t{?:} operator are
compiled into explicit conditionals:
\begin{cilcode}[local]
  int x;
  int y = x ? 2 : 4;
  int z = x || y;
  // Here we duplicate the return statement
  if(x && y) { return 0; } else { return 1; }
  // To avoid excessive duplication, CIL uses goto's for 
  // statement that have more than 5 instructions
  if(x && y || z) { x ++; y ++; z ++; x ++; y ++; return z; }
\end{cilcode}

\item GCC's conditional expression with missing operands are also compiled
into conditionals:
\begin{cilcode}[local]
  int f();;
  return f() ? : 4;
\end{cilcode}

\item All forms of loops (\t{while}, \t{for} and \t{do}) are compiled
internally as a single \t{while(1)} looping construct with explicit \t{break}
statement for termination. For simple \t{while} loops the pretty printer is
able to print back the original:
\begin{cilcode}[local]
   int x, y;
   for(int i = 0; i<5; i++) {
      if(i == 5) continue;
      if(i == 4) break;
      i += 2;
   } 
   while(x < 5) {
     if(x == 3) continue;
     x ++;
   }
\end{cilcode}

\item GCC's block expressions are compiled away. (That's right there is an
infinite loop in this code.)

\begin{cilcode}[local]
   int x = 5, y = x;
   int z = ({ x++; L: y -= x; y;});
   return ({ goto L; 0; });
\end{cilcode}

\item CIL contains support for both MSVC and GCC inline assembly (both in one
internal construct)

\item CIL compiles away the GCC extension that allows many kinds of constructs
to be used as lvalues:

\begin{cilcode}[local]
   int x, y, z;
   return &(x ? y : z) - & (x ++, x);
\end{cilcode}

\item All types are computed and explicit casts are inserted for all
promotions and conversions that a compiler must insert:

\item CIL will turn old-style function definition (without prototype) into
new-style definitions. This will make the compiler less forgiving when
checking function calls, and will catch for example cases when a function is
called with too few arguments. This happens in old-style code for the purpose
of implementing variable argument functions.
 
\item Since CIL sees the source after preprocessing the code after CIL does
not contain the comments and the preprocessing directives.

\item CIL will remove from the source file those type declarations, local
variables and inline functions that are not used in the file. This means that
your analysis does not have to see all the ugly stuff that comes from the
header files: 
\begin{cilcode}[global]
#include <stdio.h>

typedef int unused_type;

static char unused_static (void) { return 0; }

int main() {
  int unused_local;
  printf("Hello world\n"); // Only printf will be kept from stdio.h     
}
\end{cilcode}

\end{enumerate}

\section{How to Use CIL}\label{sec-cil}\cutname{cilly.html}

There are two predominant ways to use CIL to write a program analysis or
transformation. The first is to phrase your analysis as a module that is
called by our existing driver. The second is to use CIL as a stand-alone
library. We highly recommend that you use \t{cilly}, our driver. 

\subsection{Using \t{cilly}, the CIL driver}

The most common way to use CIL is to write an Ocaml module containing your
analysis and transformation, which you then link into our boilerplate
driver application called \t{cilly}. \t{cilly} is a Perl script that
processes and mimics \t{GCC} and \t{MSVC} command-line arguments and then
calls \t{cilly.byte.exe} or \t{cilly.asm.exe} (CIL's Ocaml executable). 

An example of such module is \t{logwrites.ml}, a transformation that is
distributed with CIL and whose purpose is to instrument code to print the
addresses of memory locations being written. (We plan to release a
C-language interface to CIL so that you can write your analyses in C
instead of Ocaml.) See \secref{Extension} for a survey of other example
modules. 

Assuming that you have written \t{/home/necula/logwrites.ml}, 
here is how you use it: 

 \begin{enumerate}

 \item Modify \t{logwrites.ml} so that it includes a CIL ``feature
 descriptor'' like this: 
\begin{verbatim}
let feature : featureDescr = 
  { fd_name = "logwrites";              
    fd_enabled = ref false;
    fd_description = "generation of code to log memory writes";
    fd_extraopt = [];
    fd_doit = 
    (function (f: file) -> 
      let lwVisitor = new logWriteVisitor in
      visitCilFileSameGlobals lwVisitor f)
  } 
\end{verbatim}
  The \t{fd\_name} field names the feature and its associated
  command-line arguments. The \t{fd\_enabled} field is a \t{bool ref}.
  ``\t{fd\_doit}'' will be invoked if \t{!fd\_enabled} is true after
  argument parsing, so initialize the ref cell to true if you want
  this feature to be enabled by default.
  
  When the user passes the \t{-{}-{}dologwrites}
  command-line option to \t{cilly}, the variable associated with the
  \t{fd\_enabled} flag is set and the \t{fd\_doit} function is called
  on the \t{Cil.file} that represents the merger (see \secref{merger}) of
  all C files listed as arguments. 

 \item Invoke \t{configure} with the arguments
\begin{verbatim}
./configure EXTRASRCDIRS=/home/necula EXTRAFEATURES=logwrites
\end{verbatim}

 This step works if each feature is packaged into its own ML file, and the
name of the entry point in the file is \t{feature}.

 An alternative way to specify the new features is to change the build files
yourself, as explained below.  You'll need to use this method if a single
feature is split across multiple files.

\begin{enumerate}
 \item Put \t{logwrites.ml} in the \t{src} or \t{src/ext} directory. This
 will make sure that \t{make} can find it. If you want to put it in some
 other directory, modify \t{Makefile.in} and add to \t{SOURCEDIRS} your
 directory.  Alternately, you can create a symlink from \t{src} or
 \t{src/ext} to your file.

 \item Modify the \t{Makefile.in} and add your module to the 
 \t{CILLY\_MODULES} or
 \t{CILLY\_LIBRARY\_MODULES} variables. The order of the modules matters. Add
 your modules somewhere after \t{cil} and before \t{main}.

 \item If you have any helper files for your module, add those to
 the makefile in the same way.  e.g.:

\begin{verbatim}
CILLY_MODULES = $(CILLY_LIBRARY_MODULES) \
                myutilities1 myutilities2 logwrites \
                main
\end{verbatim}
  % $  <- emacs hack

 Again, order is important: \t{myutilities2.ml} will be able to refer
 to Myutilities1 but not Logwrites.  If you have any ocamllex or ocamlyacc
 files, add them to both \t{CILLY\_MODULES} and either \t{MLLS} or
 \t{MLYS}.

 \item Modify \t{main.ml} so that your new feature descriptor appears in
 the global list of CIL features. 
\begin{verbatim}
let features : C.featureDescr list = 
  [ Logcalls.feature;
    Oneret.feature;    
    Heapify.feature1;  
    Heapify.feature2;
    makeCFGFeature; 
    Partial.feature;
    Simplemem.feature;
    Logwrites.feature;  (* add this line to include the logwrites feature! *)
  ] 
  @ Feature_config.features 
\end{verbatim}

 Features are processed in the order they appear on this list.  Put
 your feature last on the list if you plan to run any of CIL's
 built-in features (such as makeCFGfeature) before your own.

\end{enumerate}

 Standard code in \t{cilly} takes care of adding command-line arguments,
 printing the description, and calling your function automatically. 
 Note: do not worry about introducing new bugs into CIL by adding a single
 line to the feature list. 

 \item Now you can invoke the \t{cilly} application on a preprocessed file, or
 instead use the \t{cilly} driver which provides a convenient compiler-like
 interface to \t{cilly}. See \secref{driver} for details using \t{cilly}.
 Remember to enable your analysis by passing the right argument (e.g.,
 \t{-{}-{}dologwrites}).   

\end{enumerate}

\subsection{Using CIL as a library}

CIL can also be built as a library that is called from your stand-alone
application. Add \t{cil/src}, \t{cil/src/frontc}, \t{cil/obj/x86\_LINUX}
(or \t{cil/obj/x86\_WIN32}) to your Ocaml project \t{-I} include paths.
Building CIL will also build the library \t{cil/obj/*/cil.cma} (or
\t{cil/obj/*/cil.cmxa}). You can then link your application against that
library. 

You can call the \t{Frontc.parse: string -> unit -> Cil.file} function with
the name of a file containing the output of the C preprocessor.
The \t{Mergecil.merge: Cil.file list -> string -> Cil.file} function merges
multiple files. You can then invoke your analysis function on the resulting
\t{Cil.file} data structure.  You might want to call
\t{Rmtmps.removeUnusedTemps} first to clean up the prototypes and variables
that are not used. Then you can call the function \t{Cil.dumpFile:
cilPrinter -> out\_channel -> Cil.file -> unit} to print the file to a
given output channel. A good \t{cilPrinter} to use is
\t{defaultCilPrinter}. 

Check out \t{src/main.ml} and \t{bin/cilly} for other good ideas
about high-level file processing. Again, we highly recommend that you just
our \t{cilly} driver so that you can avoid spending time re-inventing the
wheel to provide drop-in support for standard \t{makefile}s. 

Here is a concrete example of compiling and linking your project against
CIL. Imagine that your program analysis or transformation is contained in
the single file \t{main.ml}. 

\begin{verbatim}
$ ocamlopt -c -I $(CIL)/obj/x86_LINUX/ main.ml
$ ocamlopt -ccopt -L$(CIL)/obj/x86_LINUX/ -o main unix.cmxa str.cmxa \ 
        $(CIL)/obj/x86_LINUX/cil.cmxa main.cmx
\end{verbatim} % $

The first line compiles your analysis, the second line links it against CIL
(as a library) and the Ocaml Unix library. For more information about
compiling and linking Ocaml programs, see the Ocaml home page
at \ahreftop{http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/}{http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/}. 

In the next section we give an overview of the API that you can use
to write your analysis and transformation. 
 
\section{CIL API Documentation}\label{sec-api} 

 The CIL API is documented in the file \t{src/cil.mli}. We also have an
\ahref{api/index.html}{online documentation} extracted from
\t{cil.mli} and other useful modules. We
index below the main types that are used to represent C programs in CIL: 

\begin{itemize}
\item \ahref{api/index\_types.html}{An index of all types}
\item \ahref{api/index\_values.html}{An index of all values}
\item \ciltyperef{file} is the representation of a file.
\item \ciltyperef{global} is the representation of a global declaration or
definitions. Values for \ahref{api/Cil.html\#VALemptyFunction}{operating on globals}.
\item \ciltyperef{typ} is the representation of a type.  
Values for \ahref{api/Cil.html\#VALvoidType}{operating on types}.
\item \ciltyperef{compinfo} is the representation of a structure or a union
type
\item \ciltyperef{fieldinfo} is the representation of a field in a structure
or a union
\item \ciltyperef{enuminfo} is the representation of an enumeration type. 
\item \ciltyperef{varinfo} is the representation of a variable 
\item \ciltyperef{fundec} is the representation of a function
\item \ciltyperef{lval} is the representation of an lvalue.
Values for \ahref{api/Cil.html\#VALmakeVarinfo}{operating on lvalues}.
\item \ciltyperef{exp} is the representation of an expression without
side-effects. 
Values for \ahref{api/Cil.html\#VALzero}{operating on expressions}.
\item \ciltyperef{instr} is the representation of an instruction (with
side-effects but without control-flow)
\item \ciltyperef{stmt} is the representation of a control-flow statements. 
Values for \ahref{api/Cil.html\#VALmkStmt}{operating on statements}.
\item \ciltyperef{attribute} is the representation of attributes. 
Values for \ahref{api/Cil.html\#TYPEattributeClass}{operating on attributes}.
\end{itemize}


 \subsection{Using the visitor}\label{sec-visitor}

 One of the most useful tools exported by the CIL API is an implementation of
the visitor pattern for CIL programs. The visiting engine scans depth-first
the structure of a CIL program and at each node is queries a user-provided
visitor structure whether it should do one of the following operations: 
\begin{itemize}
\item Ignore this node and all its descendants
\item Descend into all of the children and when done rebuild the node if any
of the children have changed. 
\item Replace the subtree rooted at the node with another tree.
\item Replace the subtree with another tree, then descend into the children
and rebuild the node if necessary and then invoke a user-specified function. 
\item In addition to all of the above actions then visitor can specify that
some instructions should be queued to be inserted before the current
instruction or statement being visited. 
\end{itemize}

 By writing visitors you can customize the program traversal and
transformation. One major limitation of the visiting engine is that it does
not propagate information from one node to another. Each visitor must use its
own private data to achieve this effect if necessary. 

 Each visitor is an object that is an instance of a class of type \cilvisit{}.
The most convenient way to obtain such classes is to specialize the
\apiref{Cil.nopCilVisitor}{} class (which just traverses the tree doing
nothing). Any given specialization typically overrides only a few of the
methods. Take a look for example at the visitor defined in the module
\t{logwrites.ml}. Another, more elaborate example of a visitor is the
[copyFunctionVisitor] defined in \t{cil.ml}.

 Once you have defined a visitor you can invoke it with one of the functions:
\begin{itemize}
\item \cilvalref{visitCilFile} or \cilvalref{visitCilFileSameGlobals} - visit a file
\item \cilvalref{visitCilGlobal} - visit a global
\item \cilvalref{visitCilFunction} - visit a function definition
\item \cilvalref{visitCilExp} - visit an expression
\item \cilvalref{visitCilLval} - visit an lvalue
\item \cilvalref{visitCilInstr} - visit an instruction
\item \cilvalref{visitCilStmt} - visit a statement
\item \cilvalref{visitCilType} - visit a type. Note that this does not visit
the files of a composite type. use visitGlobal to visit the [GCompTag] that
defines the fields.
\end{itemize}

Some transformations may want to use visitors to insert additional
instructions before statements and instructions. To do so, pass a list of
instructions to the  \cilvalref{queueInstr} method of the specialized
object. The instructions will automatically be inserted before that
instruction in the transformed code. The \cilvalref{unqueueInstr} method
should not normally be called by the user. 

 \subsection{Interpreted Constructors and Deconstructors}

 Interpreted constructors and deconstructors are a facility for constructing
and deconstructing CIL constructs using a pattern with holes that can be
filled with a variety of kinds of elements. The pattern is a string that uses
the C syntax to represent C language elements. For example, the following
code:
\begin{code}
Formatcil.cType "void * const (*)(int x)"
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

 is an alternative way to construct the internal representation of the type of pointer to function
with an integer argument and a {void * const} as result: 
\begin{code}
TPtr(TFun(TVoid [Attr("const", [])],
          [ ("x", TInt(IInt, []), []) ], false, []), [])
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

 The advantage of the interpreted constructors is that you can use familiar C
syntax to construct CIL abstract-syntax trees. 

 You can construct this way types, lvalues, expressions, instructions and
statements. The pattern string can also contain a number of placeholders that
are replaced during construction with CIL items passed as additional argument
to the construction function. For example, the \t{\%e:id} placeholder means
that the argument labeled ``id'' (expected to be of form \t{Fe exp}) will
supply the expression to replace the placeholder. For example, the following
code constructs an increment instruction at location \t{loc}:
\begin{code}
Formatcil.cInstr "%v:x = %v:x + %e:something"
        loc
        [ ("something", Fe some_exp);
          ("x", Fv some_varinfo) ]
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

 An alternative way to construct the same CIL instruction is:
\begin{code}
Set((Var some_varinfo, NoOffset),
    BinOp(PlusA, Lval (Var some_varinfo, NoOffset),
          some_exp, intType), 
    loc)
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

 See \ciltyperef{formatArg} for a definition of the placeholders that are
understood.

 A dual feature is the interpreted deconstructors. This can be used to test
whether a CIL construct has a certain form:
\begin{code}
Formatcil.dType "void * const (*)(int x)" t
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

 will test whether the actual argument \t{t} is indeed a function pointer of
the required type. If it is then the result is \t{Some []} otherwise it is
\t{None}. Furthermore, for the purpose of the interpreted deconstructors
placeholders in patterns match anything of the right type. For example, 
\begin{code}
Formatcil.dType "void * (*)(%F:t)" t
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

 will match any function pointer type, independent of the type and number of
the formals. If the match succeeds the result is \t{Some [ FF forms ]} where
\t{forms} is a list of names and types of the formals. Note that each member
in the resulting list corresponds positionally to a placeholder in the
pattern.

 The interpreted constructors and deconstructors do not support the complete C
syntax, but only a substantial fragment chosen to simplify the parsing. The
following is the syntax that is supported:
\begin{verbatim}
Expressions:
  E ::= %e:ID | %d:ID | %g:ID | n | L | ( E ) | Unop E | E Binop E 
        | sizeof E | sizeof ( T ) | alignof E  | alignof ( T ) 
        | & L | ( T ) E 

Unary operators:
  Unop ::= + | - | ~ | %u:ID

Binary operators:
  Binop ::= + | - | * | / | << | >> | & | ``|'' | ^ 
          | == | != | < | > | <= | >= | %b:ID

Lvalues:
  L ::= %l:ID | %v:ID Offset | * E | (* E) Offset | E -> ident Offset 

Offsets:
  Offset ::= empty | %o:ID | . ident Offset | [ E ] Offset

Types:
  T ::= Type_spec Attrs Decl

Type specifiers:
  Type_spec ::= void | char | unsigned char | short | unsigned short
            | int | unsigned int | long | unsigned long | %k:ID | float 
            | double | struct %c:ID | union %c:ID 


Declarators:
  Decl ::= * Attrs Decl | Direct_decl


Direct declarators:
  Direct_decl ::= empty | ident | ( Attrs Decl ) 
                 | Direct_decl [ Exp_opt ]
                 | ( Attrs Decl )( Parameters )

Optional expressions
  Exp_opt ::= empty | E | %eo:ID

Formal parameters
  Parameters ::= empty | ... | %va:ID | %f:ID | T | T , Parameters

List of attributes
  Attrs ::= empty | %A:ID | Attrib Attrs

Attributes
  Attrib ::= const | restrict | volatile | __attribute__ ( ( GAttr ) )

GCC Attributes
  GAttr ::= ident | ident ( AttrArg_List )

Lists of GCC Attribute arguments:
  AttrArg_List ::= AttrArg | %P:ID | AttrArg , AttrArg_List

GCC Attribute arguments  
  AttrArg ::= %p:ID | ident | ident ( AttrArg_List )

Instructions
  Instr ::= %i:ID ; | L = E ; | L Binop= E | Callres L ( Args )

Actual arguments
   Args ::= empty | %E:ID | E | E , Args

Call destination
   Callres ::= empty | L = | %lo:ID

Statements
  Stmt ::= %s:ID | if ( E ) then Stmt ; | if ( E ) then Stmt else Stmt ;
       | return Exp_opt | break ; | continue ; | { Stmt_list } 
       | while (E ) Stmt | Instr_list 

Lists of statements
   Stmt_list ::= empty | %S:ID | Stmt Stmt_list  
                | Type_spec Attrs Decl ; Stmt_list
                | Type_spec Attrs Decl = E ; Stmt_list
                | Type_spec Attrs Decl = L (Args) ; Stmt_list

List of instructions
   Instr_list ::= Instr | %I:ID | Instr Instr_list
\end{verbatim}

Notes regarding the syntax:
\begin{itemize}
\item In the grammar description above non-terminals are written with
uppercase initial

\item All of the patterns consist of the \t{\%} character followed by one or
two letters, followed by ``:'' and an indentifier. For each such
pattern there is a corresponding constructor of the \ciltyperef{formatArg}
type, whose name is the letter 'F' followed by the same one or two letters as
in the pattern. That constructor is used by the user code to pass a
\ciltyperef{formatArg} actual argument to the interpreted constructor and by
the interpreted deconstructor to return what was matched for a pattern.

\item If the pattern name is uppercase, it designates a list of the elements
designated by the corresponding lowercase pattern. E.g. \%E designated lists
of expressions (as in the actual arguments of a call).

\item The two-letter patterns whose second letter is ``o'' designate an
optional element. E.g. \%eo designates an optional expression (as in the
length of an array). 

\item Unlike in calls to \t{printf}, the pattern \%g is used for strings. 

\item The usual precedence and associativity rules as in C apply 

\item The pattern string can contain newlines and comments, using both the
\t{/* ... */} style as well as the \t{//} one. 

\item When matching a ``cast'' pattern of the form \t{( T ) E}, the
deconstructor will match even expressions that do not have the actual cast but
in that case the type is matched against the type of the expression. E.g. the
patters \t{"(int)\%e"} will match any expression of type \t{int} whether it
has an explicit cast or not. 

\item The \%k pattern is used to construct and deconstruct an integer type of
any kind. 

\item Notice that the syntax of types and declaration are the same (in order
to simplify the parser). This means that technically you can write a whole
declaration instead of a type in the cast. In this case the name that you
declare is ignored.

\item In lists of formal parameters and lists of attributes, an empty list in
the pattern matches any formal parameters or attributes. 

\item When matching types, uses of named types are unrolled to expose a real
type before matching. 

\item The order of the attributes is ignored during matching. The the pattern
for a list of attributes contains \%A then the resulting \t{formatArg} will be
bound to {\bf all} attributes in the list. For example, the pattern \t{"const
\%A"} matches any list of attributes that contains \t{const} and binds the
corresponding placeholder to the entire list of attributes, including
\t{const}. 
 
\item All instruction-patterns must be terminated by semicolon

\item The autoincrement and autodecrement instructions are not supported. Also
not supported are complex expressions, the \t{\&\&} and \t{||} shortcut
operators, and a number of other more complex instructions or statements. In
general, the patterns support only constructs that can be represented directly
in CIL.

\item The pattern argument identifiers are not used during deconstruction.
Instead, the result contains a sequence of values in the same order as the
appearance of pattern arguments in the pattern.

\item You can mix statements with declarations. For each declaration a new
  temporary will be constructed (using a function you provive). You can then
  refer to that temporary by name in the rest of the pattern.

\item The \t{\%v:} pattern specifier is optional.
\end{itemize}

 The following function are defined in the \t{Formatcil} module for
constructing and deconstructing:
\begin{itemize}
\item \formatcilvalref{cExp} constructs \ciltyperef{exp}.
\item \formatcilvalref{cType} constructs \ciltyperef{typ}.
\item \formatcilvalref{cLval} constructs \ciltyperef{lval}.
\item \formatcilvalref{cInstr} constructs \ciltyperef{instr}.
\item \formatcilvalref{cStmt} and \formatcilvalref{cStmts} construct \ciltyperef{stmt}.
\item \formatcilvalref{dExp} deconstructs \ciltyperef{exp}.
\item \formatcilvalref{dType} deconstructs \ciltyperef{typ}.
\item \formatcilvalref{dLval} deconstructs \ciltyperef{lval}.
\item \formatcilvalref{dInstr} deconstructs \ciltyperef{lval}.
\end{itemize}

 Below is an example using interpreted constructors. This example generates
the CIL representation of code that scans an array backwards and initializes
every even-index element with an expression:
\begin{code}
Formatcil.cStmts
  loc
  "int idx = sizeof(array) / sizeof(array[0]) - 1;
   while(idx >= 0) {
     // Some statements to be run for all the elements of the array
     %S:init
     if(! (idx & 1)) 
       array[idx] = %e:init_even;
     /* Do not forget to decrement the index variable */
     idx = idx - 1;
   }"
  (fun n t -> makeTempVar myfunc ~name:n t)
  [ ("array", Fv myarray); 
    ("init", FS [stmt1; stmt2; stmt3]);
    ("init_even", Fe init_expr_for_even_elements) ]
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

 To write the same CIL statement directly in CIL would take much more effort.
Note that the pattern is parsed only once and the result (a function that
takes the arguments and constructs the statement) is memoized. 

  \subsubsection{Performance considerations for interpreted constructors}
 
 Parsing the patterns is done with a LALR parser and it takes some time. To
improve performance the constructors and deconstructors memoize the parsed
patterns and will only compile a pattern once. Also all construction and
deconstruction functions can be applied partially to the pattern string to
produce a function that can be later used directly to construct or
deconstruct. This function appears to be about two times slower than if the
construction is done using the CIL constructors (without memoization the
process would be one order of magnitude slower.) However, the convenience of
interpreted constructor might make them a viable choice in many situations
when performance is not paramount (e.g. prototyping).


 \subsection{Printing and Debugging support}
 
The Modules \moduleref{Pretty} and \moduleref{Errormsg} contain respectively
utilities for pretty printing and reporting errors and provide a convenient
\t{printf}-like interface. 

 Additionally, CIL defines for each major type a pretty-printing function that
you can use in conjunction with the \moduleref{Pretty} interface. The
following are some of the pretty-printing functions:
\begin{itemize}
\item \cilvalref{d\_exp} - print an expression
\item \cilvalref{d\_type} - print a type
\item \cilvalref{d\_lval} - print an lvalue
\item \cilvalref{d\_global} - print a global
\item \cilvalref{d\_stmt} - print a statment
\item \cilvalref{d\_instr} - print an instruction
\item \cilvalref{d\_init} - print an initializer
\item \cilvalref{d\_attr} - print an attribute
\item \cilvalref{d\_attrlist} - print a set of attributes
\item \cilvalref{d\_loc} - print a location
\item \cilvalref{d\_ikind} - print an integer kind
\item \cilvalref{d\_fkind} - print a floating point kind
\item \cilvalref{d\_const} - print a constant
\item \cilvalref{d\_storage} - print a storage specifier
\end{itemize}

 You can even customize the pretty-printer by creating instances of
\cilprinter{}. Typically such an instance extends
\cilvalref{defaultCilPrinter}. Once you have a customized pretty-printer you
can use the following printing functions:
\begin{itemize}
\item \cilvalref{printExp} - print an expression
\item \cilvalref{printType} - print a type
\item \cilvalref{printLval} - print an lvalue
\item \cilvalref{printGlobal} - print a global
\item \cilvalref{printStmt} - print a statment
\item \cilvalref{printInstr} - print an instruction
\item \cilvalref{printInit} - print an initializer
\item \cilvalref{printAttr} - print an attribute
\item \cilvalref{printAttrs} - print a set of attributes
\end{itemize}


 CIL has certain internal consistency invariants. For example, all references
to a global variable must point to the same \t{varinfo} structure. This
ensures that one can rename the variable by changing the name in the
\t{varinfo}. These constraints are mentioned in the API documentation. There
is also a consistency checker in file \t{src/check.ml}. If you suspect that
your transformation is breaking these constraints then you can pass the
\t{-{}-check} option to cilly and this will ensure that the consistency checker
is run after each transformation. 

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%5
\subsection{Attributes}\label{sec-attrib}\cutname{attributes.html}

 In CIL you can attach attributes to types and to names (variables, functions
and fields). Attributes are represented using the type \ciltyperef{attribute}.
An attribute consists of a name and a number of arguments (represented using
the type \ciltyperef{attrparam}). Almost any expression can be used as an
attribute argument. Attributes are stored in lists sorted by the name of the
attribute. To maintain list ordering, use the functions
\cilvalref{typeAttrs} to retrieve the attributes of a type and the functions
\cilvalref{addAttribute} and \cilvalref{addAttributes} to add attributes.
Alternatively you can use \cilvalref{typeAddAttributes} to add an attribute to
a type (and return the new type).

 GCC already has extensive support for attributes, and CIL extends this
support to user-defined attributes. A GCC attribute has the syntax:
 
\begin{verbatim}
 gccattribute ::= __attribute__((attribute))    (Note the double parentheses)
\end{verbatim}

 Since GCC and MSVC both support various flavors of each attribute (with or
without leading or trailing \_) we first strip ALL leading and trailing \_
from the attribute name (but not the identified in [ACons] parameters in
\ciltyperef{attrparam}). When we print attributes, for GCC we add two leading
and two trailing \_; for MSVC we add just two leading \_.
 
 There is support in CIL so that you can control the printing of attributes
(see \cilvalref{setCustomPrintAttribute} and
\cilvalref{setCustomPrintAttributeScope}). This custom-printing support is now
used to print the "const" qualifier as "\t{const}" and not as
"\t{\_\_attribute\_\_((const))}".


 The attributes are specified in declarations. This is unfortunate since the C
syntax for declarations is already quite complicated and after writing the
parser and elaborator for declarations I am convinced that few C programmers
understand it completely. Anyway, this seems to be the easiest way to support
attributes. 

 Name attributes must be specified at the very end of the declaration, just
before the \t{=} for the initializer or before the \t{,} that separates a
declaration in a group of declarations or just before the \t{;} that
terminates the declaration. A name attribute for a function being defined can
be specified just before the brace that starts the function body.

 For example (in the following examples \t{A1},...,\t{An} are type attributes
and \t{N} is a name attribute (each of these uses the \t{\_\_attribute\_\_} syntax):

\begin{code}
 int x N;
 int x N, * y N = 0, z[] N;
 extern void exit() N;
 int fact(int x) N { ... }
\end{verbatim}\end{code}


 Type attributes can be specified along with the type using the following
 rules: 
\begin{enumerate}
 \item The type attributes for a base type (int, float, named type, reference
    to struct or union or enum) must be specified immediately following the
    type (actually it is Ok to mix attributes with the specification of the
    type, in between unsigned and int for example).

  For example:
\begin{code}
  int A1 x N;  /* A1 applies to the type int. An example is an attribute
                   "even" restricting the type int to even values. */
  struct foo A1 A2 x; // Both A1 and A2 apply to the struct foo type
\end{verbatim}\end{code}
 
 \item The type attributes for a pointer type must be specified immediately
 after the * symbol.
\begin{code}
 /* A pointer (A1) to an int (A2) */
 int A2 * A1 x;
 /* A pointer (A1) to a pointer (A2) to a float (A3) */
 float A3 * A2 * A1 x;
\end{verbatim}\end{code}


 Note: The attributes for base types and for pointer types are a strict
 extension of the ANSI C type qualifiers (const, volatile and restrict). In
 fact CIL treats these qualifiers as attributes. 

  \item The attributes for a function type or for an array type can be
     specified using parenthesized declarators.

   For example:
\begin{code}
   /* A function (A1) from int (A2) to float (A3) */
   float A3 (A1 f)(int A2);

   /* A pointer (A1) to a function (A2) that returns an int (A3) */
   int A3 (A2 * A1 pfun)(void);

   /* An array (A1) of int (A2) */
   int A2 (A1 x0)[]

   /* Array (A1) of pointers (A2) to functions (A3) that take an int (A4) and 
    * return a pointer (A5) to int (A6)  */
   int A6 * A5 (A3 * A2 (A1 x1)[5])(int A4);


   /* A function (A4) that takes a float (A5) and returns a pointer (A6) to an 
    * int (A7) */
   extern int A7 * A6 (A4 x2)(float A5 x);

   /* A function (A1) that takes a int (A2) and that returns a pointer (A3) to 
    * a function (A4) that takes a float (A5) and returns a pointer (A6) to an 
    * int (A7) */
   int A7 * A6 (A4 * A3 (A1 x3)(int A2 x))(float A5) {
      return & x2;
   }
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

\end{enumerate}

 Note: ANSI C does not allow the specification of type qualifiers for function
and array types, although it allows for the parenthesized declarator. With
just a bit of thought (looking at the first few examples above) I hope that
the placement of attributes for function and array types will seem intuitive.

 This extension is not without problems however. If you want to refer just to
a type (in a cast for example) then you leave the name out. But this leads to
strange conflicts due to the parentheses that we introduce to scope the
attributes. Take for example the type of x0 from above. It should be written
as: 
 
\begin{code}
        int A2 (A1 )[]
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

 But this will lead most C parsers into deep confusion because the parentheses
around A1 will be confused for parentheses of a function designator. To push
this problem around (I don't know a solution) whenever we are about to print a
parenthesized declarator with no name but with attributes, we comment out the
attributes so you can see them (for whatever is worth) without confusing the
compiler. For example, here is how we would print the above type:

\begin{code}
        int A2 /*(A1 )*/[]
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

 \paragraph{Handling of predefined GCC attributes}

 GCC already supports attributes in a lot of places in declarations. The only
place where we support attributes and GCC does not is right before the \{ that
starts a function body. 

 GCC classifies its attributes in attributes for functions, for variables and
for types, although the latter category is only usable in definition of struct
or union types and is not nearly as powerful as the CIL type attributes. We
have made an effort to reclassify GCC attributes as name and type attributes
(they only apply for function types). Here is what we came up with:

\begin{itemize}
  \item GCC name attributes:
   
   section, constructor, destructor, unused, weak, no\_instrument\_function,
   noreturn, alias, no\_check\_memory\_usage, dllinport, dllexport, exception,
   model

      Note: the "noreturn" attribute would be more appropriately qualified as a
      function type attribute. But we classify it as a name attribute to make
      it easier to support a similarly named MSVC attribute. 
  
  \item GCC function type attributes:

    fconst (printed as "const"), format, regparm, stdcall,
    cdecl, longcall

  I was not able to completely decipher the position in which these attributes
  must go. So, the CIL elaborator knows these names and applies the following
  rules: 
  \begin{itemize}
  \item All of the name attributes that appear in the specifier part (i.e. at
  the beginning) of a declaration are associated with all declared names. 

  \item All of the name attributes that appear at the end of a declarator are
  associated with the particular name being declared.

  \item More complicated is the handling of the function type attributes, since
     there can be more than one function in a single declaration (a function
     returning a pointer to a function). Lacking any real understanding of how
     GCC handles this, I attach the function type attribute to the "nearest"
     function. This means that if a pointer to a function is "nearby" the
     attribute will be correctly associated with the function. In truth I pray
     that nobody uses declarations as that of x3 above. 
  \end{itemize}
\end{itemize}

\paragraph{Handling of predefined MSVC attributes}

  MSVC has two kinds of attributes, declaration modifiers to be printed before
  the storage specifier using the notation "\t{\_\_declspec(...)}" and a few
  function type attributes, printed almost as our CIL function type
  attributes. 

   The following are the name attributes that are printed using
   \t{\_\_declspec} right before the storage designator of the declaration:
   thread, naked, dllimport, dllexport, noreturn


   The following are the function type attributes supported by MSVC: 
   fastcall, cdecl, stdcall

   It is not worth going into the obscure details of where MSVC accepts these
   type attributes. The parser thinks it knows these details and it pulls
   these attributes from wherever they might be placed. The important thing
   is that MSVC will accept if we print them according to the rules of the CIL
   attributes ! 

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{The CIL Driver}\label{sec-driver}

 We have packaged CIL as an application \t{cilly} that contains certain
example modules, such as \t{logwrites.ml} (a module
that instruments code to print the addresses of memory locations being
written). Normally, you write another module like that, add command-line
options and an invocation of your module in \t{src/main.ml}. Once you compile
CIL you will obtain the file \t{obj/cilly.asm.exe}. 

 We wrote a driver for this executable that makes it easy to invoke your
analysis on existing C code with very little manual intervention. This driver
is \t{bin/cilly} and is quite powerful. Note that the \t{cilly} script
is configured during installation with the path where CIL resides. This means
that you can move it to any place you want. 

 A simple use of the driver is:
\begin{verbatim}
bin/cilly --save-temps -D HAPPY_MOOD -I myincludes hello.c -o hello
\end{verbatim}

\c{-{}-save-temps} tells CIL to save the resulting output files in the
current directory.  Otherwise, they'll be put in \t{/tmp} and deleted
automatically.  Not that this is the only CIL-specific flag in the
list -- the other flags use \t{gcc}'s syntax.

This performs the following actions: 
\begin{itemize}
\item preprocessing using the -D and -I arguments with the resulting 
  file left in \t{hello.i}, 
\item the invocation of the \t{cilly.asm} application which parses \t{hello.i}
  converts it to CIL and the pretty-prints it to \t{hello.cil.c}
\item another round of preprocessing with the result placed in \t{hello.cil.i}
\item the true compilation with the result in \t{hello.cil.o}
\item a linking phase with the result in \t{hello}
\end{itemize}
 
 Note that \t{cilly} behaves like the \t{gcc} compiler. This makes it
easy to use it with existing \t{Makefiles}:
\begin{verbatim}
make CC="bin/cilly" LD="bin/cilly"
\end{verbatim}

 \t{cilly} can also behave as the Microsoft Visual C compiler, if the first
 argument is \t{-{}-mode=MSVC}:
\begin{verbatim}
bin/cilly --mode=MSVC /D HAPPY_MOOD /I myincludes hello.c /Fe hello.exe
\end{verbatim}

 (This in turn will pass a \t{-{}-MSVC} flag to the underlying \t{cilly.asm}
 process which will make it understand the Microsoft Visual C extensions)

 \t{cilly} can also behave as the archiver \t{ar}, if it is passed an
 argument \t{-{}-mode=AR}. Note that only the \t{cr} mode is supported
 (create a new archive and replace all files in there).  Therefore the
 previous version of the archive is lost. You will also need to remove
 any other commands that operate on the generated library
 (e.g. \t{ranlib}, \t{lorder}), as the .a file is no longer an actual
 binary library.

 Furthermore, \t{cilly} allows you to pass some arguments on to the
underlying \t{cilly.asm} process. As a general rule all arguments that start
with \t{-{}-} and that \t{cilly} itself does not process, are passed on. For
example, 
\begin{verbatim}
bin/cilly --dologwrites -D HAPPY_MOOD -I myincludes hello.c -o hello.exe
\end{verbatim}

 will produce a file \t{hello.cil.c} that prints all the memory addresses
written by the application. 

 The most powerful feature of \t{cilly} is that it can collect all the
sources in your project, merge them into one file and then apply CIL. This
makes it a breeze to do whole-program analysis and transformation. All you
have to do is to pass the \t{-{}-merge} flag to \t{cilly}:
\begin{verbatim}
make CC="bin/cilly --save-temps --dologwrites --merge"
\end{verbatim}

 You can even leave some files untouched:
\begin{verbatim}
make CC="bin/cilly --save-temps --dologwrites --merge --leavealone=foo --leavealone=bar"
\end{verbatim}

 This will merge all the files except those with the basename \t{foo} and
\t{bar}. Those files will be compiled as usual and then linked in at the very
end. 

 The sequence of actions performed by \t{cilly} depends on whether merging
is turned on or not:
\begin{itemize}
\item If merging is off
  \begin{enumerate}
    \item For every file \t{file.c} to compile
         \begin{enumerate}
            \item Preprocess the file with the given arguments to 
                  produce \t{file.i}
            \item Invoke \t{cilly.asm} to produce a \t{file.cil.c}
            \item Preprocess to \t{file.cil.i}
            \item Invoke the underlying compiler to produce \t{file.cil.o}
         \end{enumerate}
    \item Link the resulting objects
  \end{enumerate}
\item If merging is on
  \begin{enumerate}
    \item For every file \t{file.c} to compile
         \begin{enumerate}
            \item Preprocess the file with the given arguments to 
                  produce \t{file.i}
            \item Save the preprocessed source as \t{file.o}
         \end{enumerate}
    \item When linking executable \t{hello.exe}, look at every object 
          file that must be linked and see if it actually 
          contains preprocessed source. Pass all those files to a 
          special merging application (described in
          \secref{merger}) to produce \t{hello.exe\_comb.c}
    \item Invoke \t{cilly.asm} to produce a \t{hello.exe\_comb.cil.c}
    \item Preprocess to \t{hello.exe\_comb.cil.i}
    \item Invoke the underlying compiler to produce \t{hello.exe\_comb.cil.o}
    \item Invoke the actual linker to produce \t{hello.exe}
  \end{enumerate}
\end{itemize}

 Note that files that you specify with \t{-{}-leavealone} are not merged and
never presented to CIL. They are compiled as usual and then are linked in at
the end. 

 And a final feature of \t{cilly} is that it can substitute copies of the
system's include files:

\begin{verbatim}
make CC="bin/cilly --includedir=myinclude"
\end{verbatim}

 This will force the preprocessor to use the file \t{myinclude/xxx/stdio.h}
(if it exists) whenever it encounters \t{\#include <stdio.h>}. The \t{xxx} is
a string that identifies the compiler version you are using. This modified
include files should be produced with the patcher script (see
\secref{patcher}).

  \subsection{\t{cilly} Options}

 Among the options for the \t{cilly} you can put anything that can normally
go in the command line of the compiler that \t{cilly} is impersonating.
\t{cilly} will do its best to pass those options along to the appropriate
subprocess. In addition, the following options are supported (a complete and
up-to-date list can always be obtained by running \t{cilly -{}-help}):

\begin{itemize}
\item \t{-{}-gcc=command} Tell \t{cilly} to use \t{command} to invoke
  gcc, e.g.  \t{-{}-gcc=arm-elf-gcc} to use a cross-compiler. See also
  the \t{-{}-envmachine} option below that tells CIL to assume a
  different machine model.
\item \t{-{}-mode=mode} This must be the first argument if present. It makes
\t{cilly} behave as a given compiled. The following modes are recognized: 
     \begin{itemize}
        \item GNUCC - the GNU C Compiler. This is the default.
        \item MSVC - the Microsoft Visual C compiler. Of course, you should
                     pass only MSVC valid options in this case. 
        \item AR - the archiver \t{ar}. Only the mode \t{cr} is supported and
                   the original version of the archive is lost. 
     \end{itemize}
\item \t{-{}-help} Prints a list of the options supported.
\item \t{-{}-verbose} Prints lots of messages about what is going on.
\item \t{-{}-stages} Less than \t{-{}-verbose} but lets you see what \t{cilly}
                   is doing. 
\item \t{-{}-merge} This tells \t{cilly} to first attempt to collect into one
source file all of the sources that make your application, and then to apply
\t{cilly.asm} on the resulting source. The sequence of actions in this case is
described above and the merger itself is described in \secref{merger}.

\item \t{-{}-leavealone=xxx}. Do not merge and do not present to CIL the files
whose basename is "xxx". These files are compiled as usual and linked in at
the end. 
\item \t{-{}-includedir=xxx}. Override the include files with those in the given
directory. The given directory is the same name that was given an an argument
to the patcher (see \secref{patcher}). In particular this means that
that directory contains subdirectories named based on the current compiler
version. The patcher creates those directories. 
\item \t{-{}-usecabs}. Do not CIL, but instead just parse the source and print
its AST out. This should looked like the preprocessed file. This is useful
when you suspect that the conversion to CIL phase changes the meaning of the
program. 
\item \t{-{}-save-temps=xxx}. Temporary files are preserved in the xxx
  directory.  For example, the output of CIL will be put in a file
  named \t{*.cil.c}.
\item \t{-{}-save-temps}. Temporay files are preserved in the current directory.
\end{itemize}
 
 
  \subsection{\t{cilly.asm} Options}
  \label{sec-cilly-asm-options}

 All of the options that start with \t{-{}-} and are not understood by
\t{cilly} are passed on to \t{cilly.asm}.   \t{cilly} also passes along to
\t{cilly.asm} flags such as \t{-{}-MSVC} that both need to know
about.  The following options are supported.  Many of these flags also
have corresponding ``\t{-{}-no}*'' versions if you need to go back to
the default, as in ``\t{-{}-nowarnall}''.

\hspace*{2cm} {\bf General Options:}
\begin{itemize}
  \item \t{-{}-version} output version information and exit
  \item \t{-{}-verbose} Print lots of random stuff. This is passed on from cilly
  \item \t{-{}-warnall} Show all warnings.
  \item \t{-{}-debug=xxx} turns on debugging flag xxx
  \item \t{-{}-nodebug=xxx} turns off debugging flag xxx
  \item \t{-{}-flush} Flush the output streams often (aids debugging).
  \item \t{-{}-check} Run a consistency check over the CIL after every operation.
  \item \t{-{}-strictcheck} Same as \t{-{}-check}, but it treats
    consistency problems as errors instead of warnings.
  \item \t{-{}-nocheck} turns off consistency checking of CIL.
  \item \t{-{}-noPrintLn} Don't output \#line directives in the output.
  \item \t{-{}-commPrintLn} Print \#line directives in the output, but
    put them in comments.
  \item \t{-{}-commPrintLnSparse} Like \t{-{}-commPrintLn} but print only new
         line numbers.
  \item \t{-{}-log=xxx} Set the name of the log file.  By default stderr is used
  \item \t{-{}-MSVC} Enable MSVC compatibility. Default is GNU.
  %\item \t{-{}-testcil} test CIL using the given compiler
  \item \t{-{}-ignore-merge-conflicts} ignore merging conflicts.
  %\item \t{-{}-sliceGlobal} output is the slice of #pragma cilnoremove(sym) symbols
  %\item \t{-{}-tr <sys>}: subsystem to show debug printfs for
  %\item \t{-{}-pdepth=n}: set max print depth (default: 5)
  \item \t{-{}-extrafiles=filename}: the name of a file that contains
    a list of additional files to process, separated by whitespace.
  \item \t{-{}-stats} Print statistics about the running time of the
    parser, conversion to CIL, etc.  Also prints memory-usage
    statistics.  You can time parts of your own code as well.  Calling
    (\t{Stats.time ``label'' func arg}) will evaluate \t{(func arg)}
    and remember how long this takes.  If you call \t{Stats.time}
    repeatedly with the same label, CIL will report the aggregate
    time.

    If available, CIL uses the x86 performance counters for these
    stats.  This is very precise, but results in ``wall-clock time.''
    To report only user-mode time, find the call to \t{Stats.reset} in
    \t{main.ml}, and change it to \t{Stats.reset Stats.SoftwareTimer}.
  
  \item \t{-{}-envmachine}. Use machine model specified in
    \t{CIL\_MACHINE} environment variable, rather than the one
    compiled into CIL. Note that you should not pass gcc's 32/64-bit
    \t{-m32} and \t{-m64} options to \t{cilly} if you use
    \t{-{}-envmachine} (they use \t{-{}-envmachine} under the hood).
    See \secref{cilmachine} for a description of \t{CIL\_MACHINE}'s
    format.

   {\bf Lowering Options}
  \item \t{-{}-noLowerConstants} do not lower constant expressions.
  \item \t{-{}-noInsertImplicitCasts} do not insert implicit casts.
  \item \t{-{}-forceRLArgEval} Forces right to left evaluation of function arguments.
  %\item \t{-{}-nocil=n} Do not compile to CIL the global with the given index.
  \item \t{-{}-disallowDuplication} Prevent small chunks of code from being duplicated.
  \item \t{-{}-keepunused} Do not remove the unused variables and types.
  \item \t{-{}-rmUnusedInlines} Delete any unused inline functions.  This is the default in MSVC mode.
   
  {\bf Output Options:}
  \item \t{-{}-printCilAsIs} Do not try to simplify the CIL when
  printing.  Without this flag, CIL will attempt to produce prettier
  output by e.g. changing \t{while(1)} into more meaningful loops.
  \item \t{-{}-noWrap} do not wrap long lines when printing
  \item \t{-{}-out=xxx} the name of the output CIL file.  \t{cilly}
  sets this for you.
  \item \t{-{}-mergedout=xxx} specify the name of the merged file
  \item \t{-{}-cabsonly=xxx} CABS output file name
%%   \item \t{-{}-printComments : print cabs tree structure in comments in cabs output
%%   \item \t{-{}-patchFile <fname>: name the file containing patching transformations
%%   \item \t{-{}-printPatched : print patched CABS files after patching, to *.patched
%%   \item \t{-{}-printProtos : print prototypes to safec.proto.h after parsing

  {\bf Selected features.}  See \secref{Extension} for more information.
\item \t{-{}-dologcalls}. Insert code in the processed source to print the name of
functions as are called. Implemented in \t{src/ext/logcalls.ml}.
\item \t{-{}-dologwrites}. Insert code in the processed source to print the
address of all memory writes. Implemented in \t{src/ext/logwrites.ml}.
\item \t{-{}-dooneRet}. Make each function have at most one 'return'.
Implemented in \t{src/ext/oneret.ml}. 
\item \t{-{}-dostackGuard}. Instrument function calls and returns to
maintain a separate stack for return addresses. Implemeted in
\t{src/ext/heapify.ml}. 
\item \t{-{}-domakeCFG}. Make the program look more like a CFG. Implemented
in \t{src/cil.ml}. 
\item \t{-{}-dopartial}. Do interprocedural partial evaluation and
constant folding. Implemented in \t{src/ext/partial.ml}. 
\item \t{-{}-dosimpleMem}. Simplify all memory expressions. Implemented in
\t{src/ext/simplemem.ml}. 

For an up-to-date list of available options, run \t{cilly.asm -{}-help}. 

\end{itemize}

\subsection{Internal Options}
\label{sec-cilly-internal-options}

All of the \t{cilly.asm} options described above can be set
programmatically -- see \t{src/ciloptions.ml} or the individual
extensions to see how.  Some options should be set before parsing to
be effective.  

Additionally, a few CIL options have no command-line flag and can only
be set programmatically.  These options may be useful for certain
analyses:

\begin{itemize}
\item \t{Cabs2cil.doCollapseCallCast}:This is false by default.  Set
to true to replicate the behavior of CIL 1.3.5 and earlier.

When false, all casts in the program are made explicit using the
\t{CastE} expression. Accordingly, the destination of a Call
instruction will always have the same type as the function's return
type.

If true, the destination type of a Call may differ from the return type, so
there is an implicit cast.  This is useful for analyses involving
\t{malloc}.  Without this option, CIL converts ``\t{T* x = malloc(n);}''
into ``\t{void* tmp = malloc(n); T* x = (T*)tmp;}''.  If you don't
need all casts to be made explicit, you can set
\t{Cabs2cil.doCollapseCallCast} to true so that CIL won't insert a
temporary and you can more easily determine the allocation type from
calls to \t{malloc}.


\end{itemize}

\subsection{Specifying a machine model}
\label{sec-cilmachine}

The \t{-{}-envmachine} option tells CIL to get its machine model from
the \t{CIL\_MACHINE} environment variable, rather than use the model
compiled in to CIL itself. This is necessary when using CIL as part of
a cross-compilation setup, and to handle gcc's \t{-m32} and \t{-m64}
which select between a 32-bit and 64-bit machine model.

\t{CIL\_MACHINE} is a space-separated list of key=value pairs. Unknown
keys are ignored. The following keys must be defined:
\begin{center}
  \begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \hline
    Key & Value \\ \hline
    bool            & sizeof(\_Bool),alignof(\_Bool) \\
    short           & sizeof(short),alignof(short) \\
    int             & sizeof(int),alignof(int) \\
    long            & sizeof(long),alignof(long) \\
    long\_long      & sizeof(long long),alignof(long long) \\
    float           & sizeof(float),alignof(float) \\
    double          & sizeof(double),alignof(double) \\
    long\_double    & sizeof(long double),alignof(long double) \\
    pointer         & sizeof(all pointers),alignof(all pointers) \\
    enum            & sizeof(all enums),alignof(all enums) \\
    fun             & sizeof(all fn ptrs),alignof(all fn ptrs) \\
    alignof\_string & alignof(all string constants) \\
    max\_alignment  & maximum alignment for any type \\
    size\_t         & the definition of size\_t \\
    wchar\_t        & the definition of wchar\_t \\
    char\_signed    & true if char is signed \\
    big\_endian     & true for big-endian machine models \\
    const\_string\_literals & true if string constants are const \\
    \_\_thread\_is\_keyword & true if \t{\_\_thread} is a keyword \\
    \_\_builtin\_va\_list & true if \t{\_\_builtin\_va\_list} is a builtin type \\
    underscore\_name & true if generated symbols preceded by \_ \\ \hline
  \end{tabular}
\end{center}

Some notes:
\begin{itemize}
\item Values cannot contain spaces as spaces separate key/value pairs. 
\item The value of size\_t is the text for the type defined as
  size\_t, e.g. \t{unsigned long}. As spaces are not allowed in values,
  CIL will replace underscores by spaces: \t{size\_t=unsigned\_long}.
\item sizeof(t) and alignof(t) are respectively the size and alignment of
  type t.
\item The boolean-valued keys expect \t{true} for true, and \t{false}
  for false.
\item The \t{src/machdep-ml.c} program will print a \t{CIL\_MACHINE} value
  when run with the \t{-{}-env} option.
\end{itemize}

As an example, here's the \t{CIL\_MACHINE} value for 64-bit targets on
an x86-based Mac OS X machine:
\begin{verbatim}
  short=2,2 int=4,4 long=8,8 long_long=8,8 pointer=8,8 enum=4,4
  float=4,4 double=8,8 long_double=16,16 void=1 bool=1,1 fun=1,1
  alignof_string=1 max_alignment=16 size_t=unsigned_long 
  wchar_t=int char_signed=true const_string_literals=true 
  big_endian=false __thread_is_keyword=true 
  __builtin_va_list=true underscore_name=true
\end{verbatim}


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{Library of CIL Modules} \label{sec-Extension}\cutname{ext.html}

 We are developing a suite of modules that use CIL for program analyses and
transformations that we have found useful. You can use these modules directly
on your code, or generally as inspiration for writing similar modules. A
particularly big and complex application written on top of CIL is CCured
(\ahrefurl{../ccured/index.html}).

\subsection{Control-Flow Graphs} \label{sec-cfg}

The \ciltyperef{stmt} datatype includes fields for intraprocedural
control-flow information: the predecessor and successor statements of
the current statement.  This information is not computed by default.
If you want to use the control-flow graph, or any of the extensions in
this section that require it, you have to explicitly ask CIL to
compute the CFG using one of these two methods:

\subsubsection{The CFG module (new in CIL 1.3.5)}

The best way to compute the CFG is with the CFG module.  Just invoke
\cfgref{computeFileCFG} on your file. The \moduleref{Cfg} API
describes the rest of actions you can take with this module, including
computing the CFG for one function at a time, or printing the CFG in
\t{dot} form.


\subsubsection{Simplified control flow}

CIL can reduce high-level C control-flow constructs like \t{switch} and
\t{continue} to lower-level \t{goto}s. This completely eliminates some
possible classes of statements from the program and may make the result
easier to analyze (e.g., it simplifies data-flow analysis).

You can invoke this transformation on the command line with
\t{-{}-domakeCFG} or programatically with \cilvalref{prepareCFG}.
After calling Cil.prepareCFG, you can use \cilvalref{computeCFGInfo}
to compute the CFG information and find the successor and predecessor
of each statement.

For a concrete example, you can see how \t{cilly -{}-domakeCFG}
transforms the following code (note the fall-through in case 1): 

\begin{cilcode}[global] --domakeCFG
  int foo (int predicate) {
    int x = 0;
    switch (predicate) {
      case 0: return 111;
      case 1: x = x + 1;
      case 2: return (x+3);
      case 3: break;
      default: return 222;
    }
    return 333;
  }
\end{cilcode}

\subsection{Data flow analysis framework}

 The \moduleref{Dataflow} module (click for the ocamldoc) contains a
parameterized framework for forward and backward data flow
analyses. You provide the transfer functions and this module does the
analysis.  You must compute control-flow information (\secref{cfg})
before invoking the Dataflow module.


\subsection{Inliner}

 The file ext/inliner.ml contains a function inliner. 

\subsection{Dominators} 
 
 The module \moduleref{Dominators} contains the computation of immediate
 dominators. It uses the \moduleref{Dataflow} module. 

\subsection{Points-to Analysis}

The module \t{ptranal.ml} contains two interprocedural points-to
analyses for CIL: \t{Olf} and \t{Golf}.  \t{Olf} is the default.
(Switching from \t{olf.ml} to \t{golf.ml} requires a change in
\t{Ptranal} and a recompiling \t{cilly}.)

The analyses have the following characteristics:
\begin{itemize}
\item Not based on C types (inferred pointer relationships are sound
  despite most kinds of C casts)
\item One level of subtyping 
\item One level of context sensitivity (Golf only)
\item Monomorphic type structures
\item Field insensitive (fields of structs are conflated)
\item Demand-driven (points-to queries are solved on demand)
\item Handle function pointers
\end{itemize}

The analysis itself is factored into two components: \t{Ptranal},
which walks over the CIL file and generates constraints, and \t{Olf}
or \t{Golf}, which solve the constraints.  The analysis is invoked
with the function \t{Ptranal.analyze\_file: Cil.file ->
  unit}.  This function builds the points-to graph for the CIL file
and stores it internally.  There is currently no facility for clearing
internal state, so \t{Ptranal.analyze\_file} should only be called
once.

%%% Interface for querying the points-to graph...
The constructed points-to graph supports several kinds of queries,
including alias queries (may two expressions be aliased?) and
points-to queries (to what set of locations may an expression point?).

%%% Main Interface
The main interface with the alias analysis is as follows:
\begin{itemize}
\item \t{Ptranal.may\_alias: Cil.exp -> Cil.exp -> bool}. If
  \t{true}, the two expressions may have the same value.
\item \t{Ptranal.resolve\_lval: Cil.lval -> (Cil.varinfo
    list)}.  Returns the list of variables to which the given
  left-hand value may point.
\item \t{Ptranal.resolve\_exp: Cil.exp -> (Cil.varinfo list)}.
  Returns the list of variables to which the given expression may
  point.
\item \t{Ptranal.resolve\_funptr: Cil.exp -> (Cil.fundec
    list)}. Returns the list of functions to which the given
  expression may point.
\end{itemize}

%%% Controlling the analysis
The precision of the analysis can be customized by changing the values
of several flags:

\begin{itemize}
\item \t{Ptranal.no\_sub: bool ref}.
  If \t{true}, subtyping is disabled.  Associated commandline option:
  {\bf -{}-ptr\_unify}.
\item \t{Ptranal.analyze\_mono: bool ref}.
  (Golf only) If \t{true}, context sensitivity is disabled and the
  analysis is effectively monomorphic.  Commandline option:
  {\bf -{}-ptr\_mono}.
\item \t{Ptranal.smart\_aliases: bool ref}.
  (Golf only) If \t{true}, ``smart'' disambiguation of aliases is
  enabled.  Otherwise, aliases are computed by intersecting points-to
  sets.  This is an experimental feature.
\item \t{Ptranal.model\_strings: bool ref}.
  Make the alias analysis model string constants by treating them as
  pointers to chars.  Commandline option: {\bf -{}-ptr\_model\_strings}
\item \t{Ptranal.conservative\_undefineds: bool ref}.
  Make the most pessimistic assumptions about globals if an undefined
  function is present.  Such a function can write to every global
  variable.  Commandline option: {\bf -{}-ptr\_conservative}
\end{itemize}

In practice, the best precision/efficiency tradeoff is achieved by
setting 
\begin{verbatim}
  Ptranal.no_sub = false
  Ptranal.analyze_mono = true
  Ptranal.smart_aliases = false
\end{verbatim}
These are the
default values of the flags.

%%% Debug output
There are also a few flags that can be used to inspect or serialize
the results of the analysis.
\begin{itemize}
%%\item \t{Ptranal.ptrResults}.
%%  Commandline option: {\bf -{}-ptr\_results}.  A no-op!
%%
%%\item \t{Ptranal.ptrTypes}.
%%  Commandline option: {\bf -{}-ptr\_types}.  A no-op!
%%
\item \t{Ptranal.debug\_may\_aliases}.
  Print the may-alias relationship of each pair of expressions in the
  program.  Commandline option: {\bf -{}-ptr\_may\_aliases}.
\item \t{Ptranal.print\_constraints: bool ref}.
  If \t{true}, the analysis will print each constraint as it is
  generated.
\item \t{Ptranal.print\_types: bool ref}.
  If \t{true}, the analysis will print the inferred type of each
  variable in the program.

  If \t{Ptranal.analyze\_mono} and \t{Ptranal.no\_sub} are both
  \t{true}, this output is sufficient to reconstruct the points-to
  graph.  One nice feature is that there is a pretty printer for
  recursive types, so the print routine does not loop.
\item \t{Ptranal.compute\_results: bool ref}.
  If \t{true}, the analysis will print out the points-to set of each
  variable in the program.  This will essentially serialize the
  points-to graph.
\end{itemize}

\subsection{StackGuard}

The module \t{heapify.ml} contains a transformation similar to the one
described in ``StackGuard: Automatic Adaptive Detection and Prevention of
Buffer-Overflow Attacks'', {\em Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Security
Conference}. In essence it modifies the program to maintain a separate
stack for return addresses. Even if a buffer overrun attack occurs the
actual correct return address will be taken from the special stack. 

Although it does work, this CIL module is provided mainly as an example of
how to perform a simple source-to-source program analysis and
transformation. As an optimization only functions that contain a dangerous
local array make use of the special return address stack. 

For a concrete example, you can see how \t{cilly -{}-dostackGuard}
transforms the following dangerous code: 

\begin{cilcode}[global] --dostackGuard
  int dangerous() {
    char array[10];
    scanf("%s",array); // possible buffer overrun!
  }

  int main () {
    return dangerous();
  }
\end{cilcode}


\subsection{Heapify}
 
The module \t{heapify.ml} also contains a transformation that moves all
dangerous local arrays to the heap. This also prevents a number of buffer
overruns. 

For a concrete example, you can see how \t{cilly -{}-doheapify}
transforms the following dangerous code: 

\begin{cilcode}[global] --doheapify
  int dangerous() {
    char array[10];
    scanf("%s",array); // possible buffer overrun!
  }

  int main () {
    return dangerous();
  }
\end{cilcode}

\subsection{One Return}

The module \t{oneret.ml} contains a transformation the ensures that all
function bodies have at most one return statement. This simplifies a number
of analyses by providing a canonical exit-point. 

For a concrete example, you can see how \t{cilly -{}-dooneRet}
transforms the following code: 

\begin{cilcode}[global] --dooneRet
  int foo (int predicate) {
    if (predicate <= 0) {
      return 1;
    } else {
      if (predicate > 5)
        return 2;
      return 3;
    }
  }
\end{cilcode}

\subsection{Partial Evaluation and Constant Folding}

The \t{partial.ml} module provides a simple interprocedural partial
evaluation and constant folding data-flow analysis and transformation.
This transformation always requires the \t{-{}-domakeCFG} option.  It
performs:
\begin{itemize}
\item Constant folding even of compiler-dependent constants as, for
  example \t{sizeof(T)}.
\item \t{if}-statement simplification for conditional expressions that
  evaluate to a constant.  The \t{if}-statement gets replaced with the
  taken branch.
\item Call elimination for
  \begin{enumerate}
  \item\label{enum:partial-empty-proc} empty functions and
  \item\label{enum:partial-const-func} functions that return a
    constant.
  \end{enumerate}
  In case~\ref{enum:partial-empty-proc} the call disappears completely
  and in case~\ref{enum:partial-const-func} it is replaced by the
  constant the function returns.
\end{itemize}

Several commandline options control the behavior of the feature.
\begin{itemize}
\item \t{-{}-partial\_no\_global\_const}:
 Treat global constants as unknown values.  This is the default.
\item \t{-{}-partial\_global\_const}:
 Treat global constants as initialized.  Let global constants
 participate in the partial evaluation.
\item \t{-{}-partial\_root\_function} \i{function-name}:
  Name of the function where the simplification starts.  Default:
  \t{main}.
\item \t{-{}-partial\_use\_easy\_alias}
  Use Partial's built-in easy alias to analyze pointers.  This is the
  default.
\item \t{-{}-partial\_use\_ptranal\_alias}
  Use feature Ptranal to analyze pointers.  Setting this option
  requires \t{-{}-doptranal}.
\end{itemize}

For a concrete example, you can see how \t{cilly -{}-domakeCFG -{}-dopartial}
transforms the following code (note the eliminated \t{if}-branch and the
partial optimization of \t{foo}):

\begin{cilcode}[global] --domakeCFG --dopartial
  int foo(int x, int y) {
    int unknown;
    if (unknown)
      return y + 2;
    return x + 3;
  }

  int bar(void) {
    return -1;
  }

  int main(void) {
    int a, b, c;
    a = foo(5, 7) + foo(6, 7) + bar();
    b = 4;
    c = b * b;
    if (b > c)
      return b - c;
    else
      return b + c;
  }
\end{cilcode}

\subsection{Reaching Definitions}

The \t{reachingdefs.ml} module uses the dataflow framework and CFG
information to calculate the definitions that reach each
statement. After computing the CFG (\secref{cfg}) and calling
\t{computeRDs} on a 
function declaration, \t{ReachingDef.stmtStartData} will contain a
mapping from statement IDs to data about which definitions reach each
statement. In particular, it is a mapping from statement IDs to a
triple the first two members of which are used internally. The third
member is a mapping from variable IDs to Sets of integer options. If
the set contains \t{Some(i)}, then the definition of that variable
with ID \t{i} reaches that statement. If the set contains \t{None},
then there is a path to that statement on which there is no definition
of that variable.  Also, if the variable ID is unmapped at a
statement, then no definition of that variable reaches that statement.

To summarize, reachingdefs.ml has the following interface:
\begin{itemize}
\item \t{computeRDs} -- Computes reaching definitions. Requires that
CFG information has already been computed for each statement.
\item \t{ReachingDef.stmtStartData} -- contains reaching
definition data after \t{computeRDs} is called.
\item \t{ReachingDef.defIdStmtHash} -- Contains a mapping
from definition IDs to the ID of the statement in which
the definition occurs.
\item \t{getRDs} -- Takes a statement ID and returns
reaching definition data for that statement.
\item \t{instrRDs} -- Takes a list of instructions and the
definitions that reach the first instruction, and for
each instruction calculates the definitions that reach
either into or out of that instruction.
\item \t{rdVisitorClass} -- A subclass of nopCilVisitor that
can be extended such that the current reaching definition
data is available when expressions are visited through
the \t{get\_cur\_iosh} method of the class.
\end{itemize}

\subsection{Available Expressions}

The \t{availexps.ml} module uses the dataflow framework and CFG
information to calculate something similar to a traditional available
expressions analysis. After \t{computeAEs} is called following a CFG
calculation (\secref{cfg}), \t{AvailableExps.stmtStartData} will
contain a mapping
from statement IDs to data about what expressions are available at
that statement. The data for each statement is a mapping for each
variable ID to the whole expression available at that point(in the
traditional sense) which the variable was last defined to be. So,
this differs from a traditional available expressions analysis in that
only whole expressions from a variable definition are considered rather
than all expressions.

The interface is as follows:
\begin{itemize}
\item \t{computeAEs} -- Computes available expressions. Requires
that CFG information has already been comptued for each statement.
\item \t{AvailableExps.stmtStartData} -- Contains available
expressions data for each statement after \t{computeAEs} has been
called.
\item \t{getAEs} -- Takes a statement ID and returns
available expression data for that statement.
\item \t{instrAEs} -- Takes a list of instructions and
the availalbe expressions at the first instruction, and
for each instruction calculates the expressions available
on entering or exiting each instruction.
\item \t{aeVisitorClass} -- A subclass of nopCilVisitor that
can be extended such that the current available expressions
data is available when expressions are visited through the
\t{get\_cur\_eh} method of the class.
\end{itemize}

\subsection{Liveness Analysis}

The \t{liveness.ml} module uses the dataflow framework and
CFG information to calculate which variables are live at
each program point. After \t{computeLiveness} is called
following a CFG calculation (\secref{cfg}), \t{LiveFlow.stmtStartData} will
contain a mapping for each statement ID to a set of \t{varinfo}s
for varialbes live at that program point.

The interface is as follows:
\begin{itemize}
\item \t{computeLiveness} -- Computes live variables. Requires
that CFG information has already been computed for each statement.
\item \t{LiveFlow.stmtStartData} -- Contains live variable data
for each statement after \t{computeLiveness} has been called.
\end{itemize}

Also included in this module is a command line interface that
will cause liveness data to be printed to standard out for
a particular function or label.

\begin{itemize}
\item \t{-{}-doliveness} -- Instructs cilly to comptue liveness
information and to print on standard out the variables live
at the points specified by \t{-{}-live\_func} and \t{live\_label}.
If both are ommitted, then nothing is printed.
\item \t{-{}-live\_func} -- The name of the function whose
liveness data is of interest. If \t{-{}-live\_label} is ommitted,
then data for each statement is printed.
\item \t{-{}-live\_label} -- The name of the label at which
the liveness data will be printed.
\end{itemize}

\subsection{Dead Code Elimination}

The module \t{deadcodeelim.ml} uses the reaching definitions
analysis to eliminate assignment instructions whose results
are not used. The interface is as follows:

\begin{itemize}
\item \t{elim\_dead\_code} -- Performs dead code elimination
on a function. Requires that CFG information has already
been computed (\secref{cfg}).
\item \t{dce} -- Performs dead code elimination on an
entire file. Requires that CFG information has already
been computed.
\end{itemize}

\subsection{Simple Memory Operations} 

The \t{simplemem.ml} module allows CIL lvalues that contain memory
accesses to be even futher simplified via the introduction of
well-typed temporaries. After this transformation all lvalues involve
at most one memory reference.

For a concrete example, you can see how \t{cilly -{}-dosimpleMem} 
transforms the following code:

\begin{cilcode}[global] --dosimpleMem
  int main () {
    int ***three;
    int **two;
    ***three = **two; 
  } 
\end{cilcode}

\subsection{Simple Three-Address Code} 

The \t{simplify.ml} module further reduces the complexity of program
expressions and gives you a form of three-address code. After this
transformation all expressions will adhere to the following grammar: 
\begin{verbatim}
 basic::=
    Const _ 
    Addrof(Var v, NoOffset)
    StartOf(Var v, NoOffset)
    Lval(Var v, off), where v is a variable whose address is not taken
                      and off contains only "basic"

 exp::=
    basic
    Lval(Mem basic, NoOffset)
    BinOp(bop, basic, basic)
    UnOp(uop, basic)
    CastE(t, basic)
   
 lval ::= 
    Mem basic, NoOffset
    Var v, off, where v is a variable whose address is not taken and off
                contains only "basic"
\end{verbatim}
In addition, all \t{sizeof} and \t{alignof} forms are turned into
constants. Accesses to arrays and variables whose address is taken are
turned into "Mem" accesses. All field and index computations are turned
into address arithmetic.

For a concrete example, you can see how \t{cilly -{}-dosimplify} 
transforms the following code:

\begin{cilcode}[global] --dosimplify
  int main() {
    struct mystruct {
      int a;
      int b;
    } m;
    int local;
    int arr[3];
    int *ptr;

    ptr = &local;
    m.a = local + sizeof(m) + arr[2];
    return m.a; 
  } 
\end{cilcode}

\subsection{Converting C to C++}

The module canonicalize.ml performs several transformations to correct
differences between C and C++, so that the output is (hopefully) valid
C++ code.  This may be incomplete --- certain fixes which are necessary
for some programs are not yet implemented.

Using the \t{-{}-doCanonicalize} option with CIL will perform the
following changes to your program:

\begin{enumerate}
\item Any variables that use C++ keywords as identifiers are renamed.
\item C allows global variables to have multiple declarations and
      multiple (equivalent) definitions.  This transformation removes
      all but one declaration and all but one definition.
\item \t{\_\_inline} is \#defined to \t{inline}, and \t{\_\_restrict} 
      is \#defined to nothing.
\item C allows function pointers with no specified arguments to be used on
      any argument list.  To make C++ accept this code, we insert a cast
      from the function pointer to a type that matches the arguments.  Of
      course, this does nothing to guarantee that the pointer actually has
      that type.
\item Makes casts from int to enum types explicit.  (CIL changes enum
      constants to int constants, but doesn't use a cast.)
\end{enumerate}


\subsection{Generating LLVM code (new in 1.3.7)}

The llvm.ml module generates LLVM (``Low Level Virtual Machine'',
\ahreftop{http://llvm.org}{http://llvm.org}) code from a CIL file. The
current version only targets 32-bit x86 code (as of version 2.5,
LLVM's 64-bit x86 support is still incomplete), and has a few significant
limitations:
\begin{itemize}
\item No support for bitfields.
\item No support for inline assembly.
\item Ignores gcc pragmas and attributes (except those explicitly handled by CIL).
\item No support for variable-sized types.
\end{itemize}

LLVM support is enabled by running \t{configure} with the
\t{--with-llvm} option before compiling CIL. You can then convert C
code to LLVM assembly with \t{cilly --dollvm somefile.c}. Or you can
call \t{Llvm.generate} on a CIL file to get LLVM assembly as a \t{doc}
string.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{Controlling CIL}

 In the process of converting a C file to CIL we drop the unused prototypes
and even inline function definitions. This results in much smaller files. If
you do not want this behavior then you must pass the \t{-{}-keepunused} argument
to the CIL application. 

 Alternatively you can put the following pragma in the code (instructing CIL
to specifically keep the declarations and definitions of the function
\t{func1} and variable \t{var2}, the definition of type \t{foo} and of
structure \t{bar}):
\begin{code}
#pragma cilnoremove("func1", "var2", "type foo", "struct bar")
\end{verbatim}\end{code}



\section{GCC Extensions}

 The CIL parser handles most of the \t{gcc}
\ahreftop{http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.0.2/gcc\_5.html#SEC67}{extensions}
and compiles them to CIL. The following extensions are not handled (note that
we are able to compile a large number of programs, including the Linux kernel,
without encountering these):

\begin{enumerate}
\item Nested function definitions.
\item Constructing function calls.
\item Naming an expression's type.
\item Complex numbers
\item Hex floats
\item Subscripts on non-lvalue arrays.
\item Forward function parameter declarations
\end{enumerate}

 The following extensions are handled, typically by compiling them away:
\begin{enumerate}
\item Attributes for functions, variables and types. In fact, we have a clear
specification (see \secref{attrib}) of how attributes are interpreted. The
specification extends that of \t{gcc}.
\item Old-style function definitions and prototypes. These are translated to
new-style. 
\item Locally-declared labels. As part of the translation to CIL, we generate
new labels as needed. 
\item Labels as values and computed goto. This allows a program to take the
address of a label and to manipulate it as any value and also to perform a
computed goto. We compile this by assigning each label whose address is taken
a small integer that acts as its address. Every computed \t{goto} in the body
of the function is replaced with a \t{switch} statement. If you want to invoke
the label from another function, you are on your own (the \t{gcc}
documentation says the same.)
\item Generalized lvalues. You can write code like \t{(a, b) += 5} and it gets
translated to CIL. 
\item Conditionals with omitted operands. Things like \t{x ? : y} are
translated to CIL.
\item Double word integers. The type \t{long long} and the \t{LL} suffix on
constants is understood. This is currently interpreted as 64-bit integers.
\item Local arrays of variable length. These are converted to uses of
\t{alloca}, the array variable is replaced with a pointer to the allocated
array and the instances of \t{sizeof(a)} are adjusted to return the size of
the array and not the size of the pointer. 
\item Non-constant local initializers. Like all local initializers these are
compiled into assignments. 
\item Compound literals. These are also turned into assignments.
\item Designated initializers. The CIL parser actually supports the full ISO
syntax for initializers, which is more than both \t{gcc} and \t{MSVC}. I
(George) think that this is the most complicated part of the C language and
whoever designed it should be banned from ever designing languages again.
\item Case ranges. These are compiled into separate cases. There is no code
duplication, just a larger number of \t{case} statements.
\item Transparent unions. This is a strange feature that allows you to define
a function whose formal argument has a (tranparent) union type, but the
argument is called as if it were the first element of the union. This is
compiled away by saying that the type of the formal argument is that of the
first field, and the first thing in the function body we copy the formal into
a union. 

\item Inline assembly-language. The full syntax is supported and it is carried
as such in CIL.

\item Function names as strings. The identifiers \t{\_\_FUNCTION\_\_} and
\t{\_\_PRETTY\_FUNCTION\_\_} are replaced with string literals. 

\item Keywords \t{typeof}, \t{alignof}, \t{inline} are supported. 
\end{enumerate}

\section{CIL Limitations}

 There are several implementation details of CIL that might make it unusable
 or less than ideal for certain tasks:

\begin{itemize}
\item CIL operates after preprocessing. If you need to see comments, for
example, you cannot use CIL. But you can use attributes and pragmas instead.
And there is some support to help you patch the include files before they are
seen by the preprocessor. For example, this is how we turn some
\t{\#define}s that we don't like into function calls. 

\item CIL does transform the code in a non-trivial way. This is done in order
to make most analyses easier. But if you want to see the code \t{e1, e2++}
exactly as it appears in the code, then you should not use CIL. 

\item CIL removes all local scopes and moves all variables to function
scope. It also separates a declaration with an initializer into a declaration
plus an assignment. The unfortunate effect of this transformation is that
local variables cannot have the \t{const} qualifier.

\end{itemize}
 
\section{Known Bugs and Limitations}

\subsection{Code that CIL won't compile}
\begin{itemize}
\item We do not support tri-graph sequences (ISO 5.2.1.1).

\item CIL cannot parse arbitrary \t{\#pragma} directives.  Their
  syntax must follow gcc's attribute syntax to be understood.  If you
  need a pragma that does not follow gcc syntax, add that pragma's name
  to \t{no\_parse\_pragma} in \t{src/frontc/clexer.mll} to indicate that
  CIL should treat that pragma as a monolithic string rather than try
  to parse its arguments.

  CIL cannot parse a line containing an empty \t{\#pragma}.

\item CIL only parses \t{\#pragma} directives at the "top level", this is,
  outside of any enum, structure, union, or function definitions.

  If your compiler uses pragmas in places other than the top-level,
  you may have to preprocess the sources in a special way (sed, perl,
  etc.) to remove pragmas from these locations.

\item CIL cannot parse the following code (fixing this problem would require
  extensive hacking of the LALR grammar):
\begin{code}
int bar(int ()); // This prototype cannot be parsed
int bar(int x()); // If you add a name to the function, it works
int bar(int (*)()); // This also works (and it is more appropriate)
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

\item CIL also cannot parse certain K\&R old-style prototypes with missing
  return type:
\begin{code}
g(); // This cannot be parsed
int g(); // This is Ok
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

\item CIL does not understand some obscure combinations of type
  specifiers (``signed'' and ``unsigned'' applied to typedefs that
  themselves contain a sign specification; you could argue that this
  should not be allowed anyway):
\begin{code}
typedef signed char __s8;
__s8 unsigned uchartest; // This is unsigned char for gcc
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

\item CIL does not support constant-folding of floating-point values,
  because it is difficult to simulate the behavior of various
  C floating-point implementations in Ocaml.  Therefore, code such as
  this will not compile:
\begin{code}
int globalArray[(1.0 < 2.0) ? 5 : 50]
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

\item CIL uses Ocaml ints to represent the size of an object.
  Therefore, it can't compute the size of any object that is larger
  than $2^{30}$ bits (134 MB) on 32-bit computers, or $2^{62}$ bits on
  64-bit computers.

\end{itemize}

\subsection{Code that behaves differently under CIL}

\begin{itemize}
\item GCC has a strange feature called ``extern inline''. Such a function can
be defined twice: first with the ``extern inline'' specifier and the second
time without it. If optimizations are turned off then the ``extern inline''
definition is considered a prototype (its body is ignored). 

With old versions of gcc, if optimizations
are turned on then the extern inline function is inlined at all of its
occurrences from the point of its definition all the way to the point where the
(optional) second definition appears. No body is generated for an extern
inline function. A body is generated for the real definition and that one is
used in the rest of the file. 

With new versions of gcc, the extern inline function is used only if there is no
actual (non-extern) second definition (i.e. the second definition is used in the
whole file, even for calls between the extern inline definition and the second
definition).

By default, CIL follows the current gcc behavior for extern
inline. However, if you set \t{oldstyleExternInline} to true, you will
get an emulation of gcc's old behaviour (under the assumption that
optimizations are enabled): CIL will rename your extern inline
function (and its uses) with the suffix \t{\_\_extinline}. This means
that if you have two such definition, that do different things and the
optimizations are not on, then the CIL version might compute a
different answer! Also, if you have multiple extern inline
declarations then CIL will ignore but the first one. This is not so
bad because GCC itself would not like it.

\item The implementation of \t{bitsSizeOf} does not take into account the
  packing pragmas. However it was tested to be accurate on cygwin/gcc-2.95.3,
  Linux/gcc-2.95.3 and on Windows/MSVC.

\item \t{-malign-double} is ignored.

\item The statement \t{x = 3 + x ++} will perform the increment of \t{x}
  before the assignment, while \t{gcc} delays the increment after the
  assignment. It turned out that this behavior is much easier to implement
  than gcc's one, and either way is correct (since the behavior is unspecified
  in this case). Similarly, if you write \t{x = x ++;} then CIL will perform
  the increment before the assignment, whereas GCC and MSVC will perform it
  after the assignment. 

\item Because CIL uses 64-bit floating point numbers in its internal
  representation of floating point numbers, \t{long double} constants
  are parsed as if they were \t{double} constants.

\end{itemize}

\subsection{Effects of the CIL translation}
\begin{itemize}
\item CIL cleans up C code in various ways that may suppress compiler
  warnings.  For example, CIL will add casts where they are needed
  while \t{gcc} might print a warning for the missing cast.  It is
  not a goal of CIL to emit such warnings --- we support several
  versions of several different compilers, and mimicking the warnings
  of each is simply not possible.  If you want to see compiler
  warnings, compile your program with your favorite compiler before
  using CIL.

\item When you use variable-length arrays, CIL turns them into calls
  to \t{alloca}. This means that they are deallocated when the
  function returns and not when the local scope ends.

  Variable-length arrays are not supported as fields of a struct or union.

\item In the new versions of \t{glibc} there is a function
  \t{\_\_builtin\_va\_arg} that takes a type as its second argument. CIL
  handles that through a slight trick. As it parses the function it changes a
  call like:
\begin{verbatim}
  mytype x = __builtin_va_arg(marker, mytype)
\end{verbatim}
 into 
\begin{verbatim}
 mytype x;
 __builtin_va_arg(marker, sizeof(mytype), &x);
\end{verbatim}

 The latter form is used internally in CIL. However, the CIL pretty printer
 will try to emit the original code. 

 Similarly, \t{\_\_builtin\_types\_compatible\_p(t1, t2)}, which takes
 types as arguments, is represented internally as
 \t{\_\_builtin\_types\_compatible\_p(sizeof t1, sizeof t2)}, but the
 sizeofs are removed when printing.

\end{itemize}





  \section{Using the merger}\label{sec-merger}\cutname{merger.html}

 There are many program analyses that are more effective when
done on the whole program.

 The merger is a tool that combines all of the C source files in a project
into a single C file. There are two tasks that a merger must perform:
\begin{enumerate}
\item Detect what are all the sources that make a project and with what
compiler arguments they are compiled.

\item Merge all of the source files into a single file. 
\end{enumerate}

 For the first task the merger impersonates a compiler and a linker (both a
GCC and a Microsoft Visual C mode are supported) and it expects to be invoked
(from a build script or a Makefile) on all sources of the project. When
invoked to compile a source the merger just preprocesses the source and saves
the result using the name of the requested object file. By preprocessing at
this time the merger is able to take into account variations in the command
line arguments that affect preprocessing of different source files.

 When the merger is invoked to link a number of object files it collects the
preprocessed sources that were stored with the names of the object files, and
invokes the merger proper. Note that arguments that affect the compilation or
linking must be the same for all source files.

 For the second task, the merger essentially concatenates the preprocessed
sources with care to rename conflicting file-local declarations (we call this
process alpha-conversion of a file). The merger also attempts to remove
duplicate global declarations and definitions. Specifically the following
actions are taken: 

\begin{itemize}
\item File-scope names (\t{static} globals, names of types defined with
\t{typedef}, and structure/union/enumeration tags) are given new names if they
conflict with declarations from previously processed sources. The new name is
formed by appending the suffix \t{\_\_\_n}, where \t{n} is a unique integer
identifier. Then the new names are applied to their occurrences in the file. 

\item Non-static declarations and definitions of globals are never renamed.
But we try to remove duplicate ones. Equality of globals is detected by
comparing the printed form of the global (ignoring the line number directives)
after the body has been alpha-converted. This process is intended to remove
those declarations (e.g. function prototypes) that originate from the same
include file. Similarly, we try to eliminate duplicate definitions of
\t{inline} functions, since these occasionally appear in include files.

\item The types of all global declarations with the same name from all files
are compared for type isomorphism. During this process, the merger detects all
those isomorphisms between structures and type definitions that are {\bf
required} for the merged program to be legal. Such structure tags and
typenames are coalesced and given the same name. 

\item Besides the structure tags and type names that are required to be
isomorphic, the merger also tries to coalesce definitions of structures and
types with the same name from different file. However, in this case the merger
will not give an error if such definitions are not isomorphic; it will just
use different names for them. 

\item In rare situations, it can happen that a file-local global in
encountered first and it is not renamed, only to discover later when
processing another file that there is an external symbol with the same name.
In this case, a second pass is made over the merged file to rename the
file-local symbol. 
\end{itemize}

 Here is an example of using the merger:

 The contents of \t{file1.c} is:
\begin{code}
struct foo; // Forward declaration
extern struct foo *global;
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

 The contents of \t{file2.c} is:

\begin{code}
struct bar {
 int x;
 struct bar *next;
};
extern struct bar *global;
struct foo {
 int y;
};
extern struct foo another;
void main() {
}
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

 There are several ways in which one might create an executable from these
files:
\begin{itemize}
\item
\begin{verbatim}
gcc file1.c file2.c -o a.out
\end{verbatim}

\item 
\begin{verbatim}
gcc -c file1.c -o file1.o
gcc -c file2.c -o file2.o
ld file1.o file2.o -o a.out
\end{verbatim}

\item 
\begin{verbatim}
gcc -c file1.c -o file1.o
gcc -c file2.c -o file2.o
ar r libfile2.a file2.o
gcc file1.o libfile2.a -o a.out
\end{verbatim}

\item 
\begin{verbatim}
gcc -c file1.c -o file1.o
gcc -c file2.c -o file2.o
ar r libfile2.a file2.o
gcc file1.o -lfile2 -o a.out
\end{verbatim}
\end{itemize}

 In each of the cases above you must replace all occurrences of \t{gcc} and
\t{ld} with \t{cilly -{}-merge}, and all occurrences of \t{ar} with \t{cilly
-{}-merge -{}-mode=AR}. It is very important that the \t{-{}-merge} flag be used
throughout the build process. If you want to see the merged source file you
must also pass the \t{-{}-keepmerged} flag to the linking phase. 

 The result of merging file1.c and file2.c is:
\begin{code}
// from file1.c
struct foo; // Forward declaration
extern struct foo *global;

// from file2.c
struct foo {
 int x;
 struct foo *next;
};
struct foo___1 {
 int y;
};
extern struct foo___1 another;
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

    \section{Using the patcher}\label{sec-patcher}\cutname{patcher.html}

 Occasionally we have needed to modify slightly the standard include files.
So, we developed a simple mechanism that allows us to create modified copies
of the include files and use them instead of the standard ones. For this
purpose we specify a patch file and we run a program caller Patcher which
makes modified copies of include files and applies the patch.

 The patcher is invoked as follows: 
\begin{verbatim}
bin/patcher [options]

Options:
  --help       Prints this help message
  --verbose    Prints a lot of information about what is being done
  --mode=xxx   What tool to emulate: 
                GNUCC     - GNU CC
                MSVC      - MS VC cl compiler

  --dest=xxx   The destination directory. Will make one if it does not exist
  --patch=xxx  Patch file (can be specified multiple times)
  --ppargs=xxx An argument to be passed to the preprocessor (can be specified
               multiple times)

  --ufile=xxx  A user-include file to be patched (treated as \#include "xxx")
  --sfile=xxx  A system-include file to be patched (treated as \#include <xxx>)
 
  --clean       Remove all files in the destination directory
  --dumpversion Print the version name used for the current compiler

 All of the other arguments are passed to the preprocessor. You should pass
 enough arguments (e.g., include directories) so that the patcher can find the
 right include files to be patched.
\end{verbatim}

 Based on the given \t{mode} and the current version of the compiler (which
the patcher can print when given the \t{dumpversion} argument) the patcher
will create a subdirectory of the \t{dest} directory, such as:
\begin{verbatim}
  /usr/home/necula/cil/include/gcc_2.95.3-5
\end{verbatim}

 In that file the patcher will copy the modified versions of the include files
specified with the \t{ufile} and \t{sfile} options. Each of these options can
be specified multiple times. 

 The patch file (specified with the \t{patch} option) has a format inspired by
the Unix \t{patch} tool. The file has the following grammar:

\begin{verbatim}
  <<< flags
  patterns
  ===
  replacement
  >>>
\end{verbatim}

 The flags are a comma separated, case-sensitive, sequence of keywords or
keyword = value. The following flags are supported:
\begin{itemize}
\item \t{file=foo.h} - will only apply the patch on files whose name is
                       \t{foo.h}. 
\item \t{optional} - this means that it is Ok if the current patch does not
match any of the processed files. 
\item \t{group=foo} - will add this patch to the named group. If this is not
specified then a unique group is created to contain just the current patch.
When all files specified in the command line have been patched, an error
message is generated for all groups for whom no member patch was used. We use
this mechanism to receive notice when the patch triggers are out-dated with
respect to the new include files. 
\item \t{system=sysname} - will only consider this pattern on a given
operating system. The ``sysname'' is reported by the ``\$\^O'' variable in
Perl, except that Windows is always considered to have sysname
``cygwin.'' For Linux use ``linux'' (capitalization matters).
\item \t{ateof} - In this case the patterns are ignored and the replacement
text is placed at the end of the patched file. Use the \t{file} flag if you
want to restrict the files in which this replacement is performed. 
\item \t{atsof} - The patterns are ignored and the replacement text is placed
at the start of the patched file. Uf the \t{file} flag to restrict the
application of this patch to a certain file. 
\item \t{disabled} - Use this flag if you want to disable the pattern.
\end{itemize}


 The patterns can consist of several groups of lines separated by the \t{|||}
marker. Each of these group of lines is a multi-line pattern that if found in
the file will be replaced with the text given at the end of the block. 

 The matching is space-insensitive.

 All of the markers \t{<<<}, \t{|||}, \t{===} and \t{>>>} must appear at the
beginning of a line but they can be followed by arbitrary text (which is
ignored).

 The replacement text can contain the special keyword \t{@\_\_pattern\_\_@},
which is substituted with the pattern that matched. 


\section{Debugging support}\label{sec-debugger}

 Most of the time we debug our code using the Errormsg module along with the
pretty printer. But if you want to use the Ocaml debugger here is an easy way
to do it. Say that you want to debug the invocation of cilly that arises out
of the following command:
\begin{verbatim}
cilly -c hello.c 
\end{verbatim}

 You must follow the installation \ahref{../ccured/setup.html}{instructions}
to install the Elist support files for ocaml and to extend your .emacs
appropriately. Then from within Emacs you do
\begin{verbatim}
ALT-X my-camldebug
\end{verbatim}

 This will ask you for the command to use for running the Ocaml debugger
(initially the default will be ``ocamldebug'' or the last command you
introduced). You use the following command:
\begin{verbatim}
cilly --ocamldebug -c hello.c 
\end{verbatim}

 This will run \t{cilly} as usual and invoke the Ocaml debugger when the cilly
engine starts. The advantage of this way of invoking the debugger is that the
directory search paths are set automatically and the right set or arguments is
passed to the debugger. 


\section{Who Says C is Simple?}\label{sec-simplec}

 When I (George) started to write CIL I thought it was going to take two weeks.
Exactly a year has passed since then and I am still fixing bugs in it. This
gross underestimate was due to the fact that I thought parsing and making
sense of C is simple. You probably think the same. What I did not expect was
how many dark corners this language has, especially if you want to parse
real-world programs such as those written for GCC or if you are more ambitious
and you want to parse the Linux or Windows NT sources (both of these were
written without any respect for the standard and with the expectation that
compilers will be changed to accommodate the program). 

 The following examples were actually encountered either in real programs or
are taken from the ISO C99 standard or from the GCC's testcases. My first
reaction when I saw these was: {\em Is this C?}. The second one was : {\em
What the hell does it mean?}. 

 If you are contemplating doing program analysis for C on abstract-syntax
trees then your analysis ought to be able to handle these things. Or, you can
use CIL and let CIL translate them into clean C code. 

%
% Note: the cilcode environment is bogus. You should preprocess this source
% with cilcode.pl !!!
%
%
 \subsection{Standard C}

\begin{enumerate}

\item Why does the following code return 0 for most values of \t{x}? (This
should be easy.)

\begin{cilcode}[local]
  int x;
  return x == (1 && x);
\end{cilcode}

\item Why does the following code return 0 and not -1? (Answer: because
\t{sizeof} is unsigned, thus the result of the subtraction is unsigned, thus
the shift is logical.)

\begin{cilcode}[local]
 return (((1 - sizeof(int)) >> 16) >> 16);
\end{cilcode}

\item Scoping rules can be tricky. This function returns 5.

\begin{cilcode}[global]
int x = 5;
int f() {
  int x = 3;
  {
    extern int x;
    return x;
  }
}
\end{cilcode}

\item Functions and function pointers are implicitly converted to each other. 

\begin{cilcode}[global]
int (*pf)(void);
int f(void) {

   pf = &f; // This looks ok
   pf = ***f; // Dereference a function?
   pf(); // Invoke a function pointer?     
   (****pf)();  // Looks strange but Ok
   (***************f)(); // Also Ok             
}
\end{cilcode}

\item Initializer with designators are one of the hardest parts about ISO C.
Neither MSVC or GCC implement them fully. GCC comes close though. What is the
final value of \t{i.nested.y} and \t{i.nested.z}? (Answer: 2 and respectively
6). 

\begin{cilcode}[global]
struct { 
   int x; 
   struct { 
       int y, z; 
   } nested;
} i = { .nested.y = 5, 6, .x = 1, 2 };               
\end{cilcode}

\item This is from c-torture. This function returns 1.

\begin{cilcode}[global]
typedef struct
{
  char *key;
  char *value;
} T1;

typedef struct
{
  long type;
  char *value;
} T3;

T1 a[] =
{
  {
    "",
    ((char *)&((T3) {1, (char *) 1}))
  }
};
int main() {
   T3 *pt3 = (T3*)a[0].value;
   return pt3->value;
}
\end{cilcode}

\item Another one with constructed literals. This one is legal according to
the GCC documentation but somehow GCC chokes on (it works in CIL though). This
code returns 2.

\begin{cilcode}[local]
 return ((int []){1,2,3,4})[1];
\end{cilcode}

\item In the example below there is one copy of ``bar'' and two copies of
  ``pbar'' (static prototypes at block scope have file scope, while for all
  other types they have block scope).  

\begin{cilcode}[global]
  int foo() {
     static bar();
     static (*pbar)() = bar;

  }

  static bar() { 
    return 1;
  }

  static (*pbar)() = 0;
\end{cilcode}


\item Two years after heavy use of CIL, by us and others, I discovered a bug
  in the parser. The return value of the following function depends on what
  precedence you give to casts and unary minus:
\begin{cilcode}[global]
  unsigned long foo() {
    return (unsigned long) - 1 / 8;
  }
\end{cilcode}

  The correct interpretation is \t{((unsigned long) - 1) / 8}, which is a
  relatively large number, as opposed to \t{(unsigned long) (- 1 / 8)}, which
  is 0. 

\item An example with \t{typedef} wierdness. Example due to James Cheney. 
\begin{cilcode}[global]
typedef int int_t;
typedef int int2_t;

int_t f(int2_t int2_t[]) {
  int_t int_t = int2_t[0];
  {
    int int2_t = 2*int_t;
    return int2_t;
  }
}
\end{cilcode}

\end{enumerate}

 \subsection{GCC ugliness}\label{sec-ugly-gcc}

\begin{enumerate}

\item GCC has generalized lvalues. You can take the address of a lot of
strange things:

\begin{cilcode}[local]
  int x, y, z;
  return &(x ? y : z) - & (x++, x);
\end{cilcode}

\item GCC lets you omit the second component of a conditional expression.

\begin{cilcode}[local]
  extern int f();
  return f() ? : -1; // Returns the result of f unless it is 0
\end{cilcode}

\item Computed jumps can be tricky. CIL compiles them away in a fairly clean
way but you are on your own if you try to jump into another function this way.

\begin{cilcode}[global]
static void *jtab[2]; // A jump table
static int doit(int x){
 
  static int jtab_init = 0;
  if(!jtab_init) { // Initialize the jump table
    jtab[0] = &&lbl1;
    jtab[1] = &&lbl2;
    jtab_init = 1;
  }
  goto *jtab[x]; // Jump through the table
lbl1:
  return 0;
lbl2:
  return 1;
}
 
int main(void){
  if (doit(0) != 0) exit(1);
  if (doit(1) != 1) exit(1);
  exit(0);
}
\end{cilcode}


\item A cute little example that we made up. What is the returned value?
(Answer: 1); 
\begin{cilcode}[local]
 return ({goto L; 0;}) && ({L: 5;});
\end{cilcode}

\item \t{extern inline} is a strange feature of GNU C. Can you guess what the
following code computes?

\begin{cilcode}[global]
extern inline foo(void) { return 1; }
int firstuse(void) { return foo(); }

// A second, incompatible definition of foo
int foo(void) { return 2; }

int main() {
    return foo() + firstuse();
}
\end{cilcode}

 The answer depends on whether the optimizations are turned on. If they are
then the answer is 3 (the first definition is inlined at all occurrences until
the second definition). If the optimizations are off, then the first
definition is ignore (treated like a prototype) and the answer is 4. 

 CIL will misbehave on this example, if the optimizations are turned off (it
 always returns 3).

\item GCC allows you to cast an object of a type T into a union as long as the
union has a field of that type:
\begin{cilcode}[global]
union u { 
   int i; 
   struct s { 
      int i1, i2;
   } s;
};

union u x = (union u)6;

int main() {
  struct s y = {1, 2};
  union u  z = (union u)y;
}
\end{cilcode}

\item GCC allows you to use the \t{\_\_mode\_\_} attribute to specify the size
of the integer instead of the standard \t{char}, \t{short} and so on:
\begin{cilcode}[global]
int __attribute__ ((__mode__ (  __QI__ ))) i8;
int __attribute__ ((__mode__ (  __HI__ ))) i16;
int __attribute__ ((__mode__ (  __SI__ ))) i32;
int __attribute__ ((__mode__ (  __DI__ ))) i64;
\end{cilcode}

\item The ``alias'' attribute on a function declaration tells the
  linker to treat this declaration as another name for the specified
  function.  CIL will replace the declaration with a trampoline
  function pointing to the specified target.
\begin{cilcode}[global]
    static int bar(int x, char y) {
      return x + y;
    }

    //foo is considered another name for bar.
    int foo(int x, char y) __attribute__((alias("bar")));
\end{cilcode}

\end{enumerate}

 \subsection{Microsoft VC ugliness}

 This compiler has few extensions, so there is not much to say here.

\begin{enumerate}
\item Why does the following code return 0 and not -1? (Answer: because of a
bug in Microsoft Visual C. It thinks that the shift is unsigned just because
the second operator is unsigned. CIL reproduces this bug when in MSVC mode.)

\begin{code}
 return -3 >> (8 * sizeof(int));
\end{verbatim}\end{code}

\item Unnamed fields in a structure seem really strange at first. It seems
that Microsoft Visual C introduced this extension, then GCC picked it up (but
in the process implemented it wrongly: in GCC the field \t{y} overlaps with
\t{x}!).

\begin{cilcode}[local]
struct {
  int x;
  struct {
     int y, z;
     struct {
       int u, v;
     };
 };
} a;
return a.x + a.y + a.z + a.u + a.v;
\end{cilcode}


\end{enumerate}

\section{Authors}

 The CIL parser was developed starting from Hugues Casse's \t{frontc}
front-end for C although all the files from the \t{frontc} distribution have
been changed very extensively. The intermediate language and the elaboration
stage are all written from scratch. The main author is
\ahref{mailto:necula@cs.berkeley.edu}{George Necula}, with significant
contributions from \ahref{mailto:smcpeak@cs.berkeley.edu}{Scott McPeak},
\ahref{mailto:weimer@cs.berkeley.edu}{Westley Weimer},
\ahref{mailto:liblit@cs.wisc.edu}{Ben Liblit},
\ahreftop{http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/\~{}matth/}{Matt Harren}, 
Raymond To and Aman Bhargava.

 This work is based upon work supported in part by the National Science
Foundation under Grants No. 9875171, 0085949 and 0081588, and gifts from
Microsoft Research. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations
expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the other sponsors.

Starting with version 1.4.0, CIL is maintained by
\ahref{mailto:kerneis@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr}{Gabriel Kerneis} since the UC
Berkeley does have time anymore to support it.

\section{License}

Copyright (c) 2001-2011,
\begin{itemize}
\item George C. Necula    <necula@cs.berkeley.edu>
\item Scott McPeak        <smcpeak@cs.berkeley.edu>
\item Wes Weimer          <weimer@cs.berkeley.edu>
\item Ben Liblit          <liblit@cs.wisc.edu>
\item Matt Harren         <matth@cs.berkeley.edu>
\item Gabriel Kerneis     <kerneis@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>
\item and the CIL contributors for various patches.
\end{itemize}
All rights reserved.

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SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

\section{Bug reports}
 
 We are certain that there are still some remaining bugs in CIL. If you find
one please file a bug report in our Source Forge space 
\ahreftop{http://sourceforge.net/projects/cil}
         {http://sourceforge.net/projects/cil}. 

  You can find there the latest announcements, a source distribution,
bug report submission instructions and a mailing list: cil-users[at
sign]lists.sourceforge.net. Please use this list to ask questions about CIL,
as it will ensure your message is viewed by a broad audience. 

\section{Changes}\label{sec-changes}\cutname{changes.html}
\begin{itemize}
\item{\bf March 22, 2013}: {\bf Released version 1.6.0}.\\
    New features:
    \begin{itemize}
      \item Support for static local variables.
      \item Support for GCC's "computed gotos" (or "labels as values").
      \item See \ahrefurl{http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.cil.user/744/} for more details.
    \end{itemize}
    Bug fixes:
    \begin{itemize}
      \item cilly: use -include only on first preprocessor run.
      \item Allow large arrays (\#3604915).
      \item Fix caller list in EasyCallGraph.
      \item Use actual prime numbers in function checksum.
      \item Make breakString tail recursive.
      \item Fix parsing of char\_signed with --envmachine (thanks to Haihao Shen).
      \item Fix MSVC build parameters for MSys (thanks to Jim Grundy).
      \item Various other fixes to Makefiles.
    \end{itemize}

\item{\bf July 14, 2012}: {\bf Released version 1.5.1}.\\
    New features:
    \begin{itemize}
        \item  Native versions of OCaml tool (thanks to Oliver Schwahn).
    \end{itemize}
    Bug fixes:
    \begin{itemize}
        \item Fixed bug in which pointer difference operations were incorrectly
            typed (\#3538514, thanks to Jim Grundy).
        \item Merger: fix integer overflow in pragma.
        \item Fix various regression tests and doc generation.
    \end{itemize}

\item{\bf June 14, 2012}: {\bf Released version 1.5.0}.\\
    New features:
    \begin{itemize}
        \item {\bf Incompatible change}: introduce a \t{Question} variant for
            the \t{Cil.exp} type (thanks to Elnatan Reisner).  Enabled by the
            flag \t{--useLogicalOperators}.
        \item Add support for new GCC attributes and builtins (thanks to Ben
            Liblit).
        \item Remove trivial gotos and associated labels in useless variables
            elimination.
    \end{itemize}
    Bug fixes:
    \begin{itemize}
        \item Preserve \t{const} in function parameters.
        \item Handle array initialization of arbitrary length.
        \item Allow single character output file names in Cilly (\#3499163).
        \item Mitigate stack-overflow issues for large case-range in switch statements (\#3480417).
        \item Explicit casting for return value of \t{va\_arg} (\#3463364).
        \item Avoid spurious warnings in \t{loadBinaryFile} (thanks to Jesse Draper).
        \item Add \t{-WX} flag to \t{CFLAGS} when using the MSVC compiler (thanks to Jim
            Grundy).
        \item Fix name collisions in global scope (\#3532283, thanks to Ed Schwartz).
        \item Fix types in switch statements (\#3481303, thanks to Boris
            Yakobowski).
        \item Minor build improvements (MacOS portability).
    \end{itemize}

\item {\bf November 4, 2011}: {\bf Released version 1.4.0}.  Includes many bug
    fixes and a cleanup of obsolete files and Makefile rules.  Also fix
    support for OCaml 3.12, add support of some gcc builtins.
\item {\bf May 28, 2009}: Improved 64-bit int support (large constants
  no longer cause a CIL failure). There's a new cilint type that
  should be used to handle integer C values - cilint is essentially a
  big\_int so will be able to handle future expansion. To get the value
  represented by a CInt64(n, ik, \_) constant, call \t{mkCilint ik n}
  --- this will give you the correct value for unsigned 64-bit C
  constants stored in a signed OCaml int64.

  In a related move, the already deprecated \t{unbox\_int\_exp},
  \t{box\_int\_to\_exp} and \t{cil\_to\_ocaml\_int} functions have
  been removed.  And \t{convertInts}, \t{isInteger},
  \t{truncateInteger64} are now deprecated and will be removed in a
  future release.

\item {\bf April 24, 2009}: {\bf Released version 1.3.7} (Subversion
  revision 10727). Includes change below and other miscellaneous bug fixes.
\item {\bf April 22, 2009}: \t{ocamlbuild} make target added (thanks
  to Gabriel Kerneis).
\item {\bf April 21, 2009}: \t{\_\_builtin\_va\_arg\_pack} support:
  calls to this builtin need to remain as the last argument to a
  function call. So to prevent CIL's usual rewriting, we internally
  represent calls to \t{\_\_builtin\_va\_arg\_pack} as
  \t{sizeof(\_\_builtin\_va\_arg\_pack)}\ldots
  
\item {\bf April 21, 2009}: \t{\_Bool} support, thanks to patches
  from Christopher Ian Stern (Sourceforge bug \#1497763).

  This leads to the addition of a new integer kind, \t{IBool} 
  which you might have to handle in some of your patterns. Note also, for
  those not familiar with \t{\_Bool}, that casts/conversion to \t{\_Bool}
  give the value 1 for non-zero values, and 0 otherwise (i.e. 
  \t{(\_Bool)x} behaves like \t{x $\!=$ 0}).
  
\item {\bf April 20, 2009}: Update builtin support, including
  \_\_builtin\_strlen (Sourceforge bug \#1873374), \_\_builtin\_choose\_expr,
  \_\_builtin\_types\_compatible\_p (Sourceforge bug \#1852730).
  For the latter two, we evaluate them in CIL (in line with the earlier handling
  of \_\_builtin\_constant\_p).

  Note that as part of these fixes, mkAddrOf no longer replaces
  \t{\&a[0]} with \t{a}, as this can break \t{typeof} (Sourceforge bug
  \#1852730 involves a use of \t{typeof(\&a[0])}).

  Typo fixes from Gabriel Kerneis.
  
\item {\bf April 17, 2009}: Update extern inline handling to match
  current gcc versions (Sourceforge bug \#1689503): the actual
  definition is always preferred over the extern inline one. CIL
  handles this by suppressing the extern inline definition (replacing
  it by a declaration) if it sees a real definition. However, if no
  real definition exists, you will get a CIL varinfo for an inline
  function with storage class extern\ldots

  You can revert to CIL's previous handling of extern inline by setting
  \t{oldstyleExternInline} to true.
\item {\bf April 16, 2009}: Add allStmts function to cfg.ml, and
  remove public visibility of nodeList and numNodes (Sourceforge bug
  \#1819746).
\item {\bf April 15, 2009}: Fix Sourceforge bugs \#2265867 (bad constant
  folding of unary minus), \#2134504 (truncation warning), \#1811676 (typo).
\item {\bf April 13, 2009}: Recognize gcc's -m32 and -m64 flags that select
  between 32 and 64 bit targets.
\item {\bf April 8, 2009}: Rename libcil.a to libcil.o (ocaml 3.11 forces
  us to use the correct extension).
\item {\bf April 7, 2009}: Add LLVM bitcode generator (partial C support, target
  32-bit x86 only).
\item {\bf April 7, 2009}: Support enums over greater-than-int types (gcc
  extension).
\item {\bf September 19, 2008}: Remove excess newlines in warnings and errors.
\item {\bf August 30, 2008}: Added an install-findlib Make target for
  ocamlfind.  Thanks to ploc for the patch.
\item {\bf May 28, 2008}: Cross-compilation support: ability to
  select a machine model specified in an environment variable (CIL\_MACHINE).
  See \secref{cilmachine} for details.
\item {\bf July 2, 2008}: Add a \t{-{}-gcc} option to cilly to tell it to use
  a particular version of gcc (useful for cross-compilation environments).
\item {\bf February 14, 2008}: Fixed a bug in temporary file
  creation.  Thanks to J. Aaron Pendergrass for the patch.
\item {\bf November 30, 2007}: Fixed a bug in assignment to lvalues that
      depend on themselves.
\item {\bf April 4, 2007}: Benjamin Monate fixed a bug in
  \moduleref{Cfg} for empty loop bodies.
\item {\bf March 29, 2007}: Polyvios Pratikakis fixed a bug in 
  \t{src/ext/pta/uref.ml}.
\item {\bf March 15, 2007}: Added support for
  \t{\_\_attribute\_\_((aligned))} and
  \t{\_\_attribute\_\_((packed))}.
\item {\bf March 7, 2007}: \t{typeOf(StartOf \_)} now preserves the
  attributes of the array.
\item {\bf February 22, 2007}: Added an inliner (ext/inliner.ml)
\item {\bf February 21, 2007}:  We now constant-fold bitfield
  expressions.  Thanks to Virgile Prevosto for the patch.
\item {\bf February 13, 2007}:  gcc preprocessor arguments passed
  using \t{-Wp} are now used only during initial preproccessing, not
  for the preprocessing after CIL.  This fixes problems in the Linux
  makefiles with dependency generation.
\item {\bf February 6, 2007}:  Fixed \cilvalref{parseInt} for non-32
  bit architectures.
\item {\bf February 5, 2007}:  {\bf Released version 1.3.6} (Subversion
  revision 9211)
\item {\bf February 2, 2007}: Improved the way CIL gets configured for the
  actual definitions of \t{size\_t} and \t{wchar\_t}. 
\item {\bf February 1, 2007}: Fixed the parser to support the unused
  attribute on labels.  For now, we just drop this attribute since
  Rmtmps will remove unused labels anyways.  Thanks to Peter Hawkins
  for the patch.
\item {\bf January 18, 2007}: Require the destination of a \t{Call} to
  have the same type as the function's return type, even if it means
  inserting a temporary.  To get the old behavior, set
  \t{Cabs2cil.doCollapseCallCast} to true as described in
  \secref{cilly-internal-options}.
\item {\bf January 17, 2007}: Fix for \t{\_\_builtin\_offsetof} when
  the field name is also a typedef name.
\item {\bf January 17, 2007}: Fixed \cilvalref{loadBinaryFile}
  (Sourceforge bug \#1548894).
  You should only use loadBinaryFile if no other code has been loaded
  or generated in the current CIL process, since loadBinaryFile needs
  to load some global state.
\item {\bf December 18, 2006}: The \t{-{}-stats} flag now gets the CPU
  speed at runtime rather than configure-time, so binary executables
  can be moved to different computers.
\item {\bf December 14, 2006}: Fixed various warnings and errors on
  64-bit architectures.
\item {\bf November 26, 2006}: Christoph Spiel added ``\t{-{}-no}''
  options to many of CIL's command-line flags.
\item {\bf November 21, 2006}: Merged \t{gccBuiltins} and
  \t{msvcBuiltins} into a single table \cilvalref{builtinFunctions}
  that is initialized by \cilvalref{initCIL}.
\item {\bf October 28, 2006}: Added the field \t{vdescr} to the
  \ciltyperef{varinfo} struct to remember what value is stored in
  certain CIL-introduced temporary variables.  For example, if CIL
  adds a temporary to store the result of \t{foo(a,b)}, then the
  description will be ``foo(a,b)''.  The new printer
  \cilvalref{descriptiveCilPrinter} will substitute descriptions for
  the names of temporaries.  The result is not necessarily valid C,
  but it may let you produce more helpful error messages in your
  analysis tools: ``The value foo(a,b) may be tainted'' vs. ``The
  value \_\_cil\_tmp29 may be tainted.''
\item {\bf October 27, 2006}: Fixed a bug with duplicate entries in
  the statement list of Switch nodes, and forbade duplicate
  \t{default} cases.
%% October 26, 2006: Moved the CIL source repository from CVS
%%  to Subversion.  Subversion revision 8603 is the switchover point.
\item {\bf October 12, 2006}: Added a new function \cilvalref{expToAttrParam}
that attempts to convert an expression into a attribute parameter. 
\item {\bf October 12, 2006}: Added an attribute with the length of the array,
 when array types of formal arguments are converted to pointer types.
\item {\bf September 29, 2006}: Benjamin Monate fixed a bug in compound
  local initializers that was causing duplicate code to be added.
\item {\bf August 9, 2006}: Changed the patcher to print ``\t{\#line
  nnn}'' directives instead of ``\t{\# nnn}''.
\item {\bf August 6, 2006}: Joseph Koshy patched \t{./configure} for
  FreeBSD on amd64.
\item {\bf July 27, 2006}: CIL files now include the prototypes of
  builtin functions (such as \t{\_\_builtin\_va\_arg}).  This
  preserves the invariant that every function call has a corresponding
  function or function prototype in the file.  However, the prototypes
  of builtins are not printed in the output files.
\item {\bf July 23, 2006}: Incorporated some fixes for the constant folding
 for lvalues, and fixed grammatical errors. Thanks to Christian Stork.
\item {\bf July 23, 2006}: Changed the way ./configure works. We now generate
  the file Makefile.features to record the configuration features. This is
  because autoconf does not work properly with multiline substitutions.
\item {\bf July 21, 2006}: Cleaned up the printing of some Lvals. Things that
  were printed as ``(*i)'' before are now printed simply as ``*i'' (no
  parentheses). However, this means that when you use pLval to print lvalues
  inside expressions, you must take care about parentheses yourself. Thanks to
  Benjamin Monate for pointing this out. 
\item {\bf July 21, 2006}: Added new hooks to the Usedef and 
  Dataflow.BackwardsTransfer APIs.  Code that uses these will need to
  be changed slightly.  Also, updated the \moduleref{Cfg} code to
  handle noreturn functions.
\item {\bf July 17, 2006}: Fix parsing of attributes on bitfields and
  empty attribute lists.  Thanks to Peter Hawkins.
\item {\bf July 10, 2006}: Fix Makefile problem for FreeBSD.  Thanks
  to Joseph Koshy for the patch.
\item {\bf June 25, 2006}: Extended the inline assembly to support named
  arguments, as added in gcc 3.0.  This changes the types of the input
  and output lists from ``\t{(string * lval) list}'' to 
  ``\t{(string option * string * lval) list}''.  Some existing code
  will need to be modified accordingly.
\item {\bf June 11, 2006}: Removed the function \t{Cil.foldLeftCompoundAll}.
Use instead \cilvalref{foldLeftCompound} with \t{~implicit:true}. 
\item {\bf June 9, 2006}: Extended the definition of the cilVisitor for
initializers to pass more information around. This might result in backward
incompatibilities with code that uses the visitor for initializers. 
\item {\bf June 2, 2006}: Added \t{-{}-commPrintLnSparse} flag.
\item {\bf June 1, 2006}: Christian Stork provided some fixes for the handling
  of variable argument functions. 
\item {\bf June 1, 2006}: Added support for x86 performance counters
  on 64-bit processors.  Thanks to tbergen for the patch.
\item {\bf May 23, 2006}: Benjamin Monate fixed a lexer bug when a
  preprocessed file is missing a final newline.
\item {\bf May 23, 2006}: Fix for \t{typeof($e$)} when $e$ has type
  \t{void}.
\item {\bf May 20, 2006}:  {\bf Released version 1.3.5} (Subversion
  revision 8093)
\item {\bf May 19, 2006}: \t{Makefile.cil.in}/\t{Makefile.cil} have
  been renamed \t{Makefile.in}/\t{Makefile}.  And \t{maincil.ml} has
  been renamed \t{main.ml}.
\item {\bf May 18, 2006}: Added a new module \moduleref{Cfg} to compute the
  control-flow graph.  Unlike the older \cilvalref{computeCFGInfo},
  the new version does not modify the code.  
\item {\bf May 18, 2006}: Added several new analyses: reaching
  definitions, available expressions, liveness analysis, and dead code
  elimination.  See \secref{Extension}.
\item {\bf May 2, 2006}: Added a flag \t{-{}-noInsertImplicitCasts}.
  When this flag is used, CIL code will only include casts inserted by
  the programmer.  Implicit coercions are not changed to explicit casts.
\item {\bf April 16, 2006}: Minor improvements to the \t{-{}-stats}
  flag (\secref{cilly-asm-options}). We now use Pentium performance
  counters by default, if your processor supports them.
\item {\bf April 10, 2006}: Extended \t{machdep.c} to support
  microcontroller compilers where the struct alignment of integer
  types does not match the size of the type.  Thanks to Nathan
  Cooprider for the patch.
\item {\bf April 6, 2006}: Fix for global initializers of unions when
  the union field being initialized is not the first one, and for
  missing initializers of unions when the first field is not the
  largest field.
\item {\bf April 6, 2006}: Fix for bitfields in the SFI module.
\item {\bf April 6, 2006}: Various fixes for gcc attributes.
  \t{packed}, \t{section}, and \t{always\_inline} attributes are now
  parsed correctly.  Also fixed printing of attributes on enum types.
\item {\bf March 30, 2006}: Fix for \t{rmtemps.ml}, which deletes
  unused inline functions.  When in \t{gcc} mode CIL now leaves all
  inline functions in place, since \t{gcc} treats these as externally
  visible. 
\item {\bf March 3, 2006}: Assume inline assembly instructions can
  fall through for the purposes of adding return statements.  Thanks to
  Nathan Cooprider for the patch.
\item {\bf February 27, 2006}: Fix for extern inline functions when
  the output of CIL is fed back into CIL.
\item {\bf January 30, 2006}: Fix parsing of \t{switch} without braces.
\item {\bf January 30, 2006}: Allow `\$' to appear in identifiers.
\item {\bf January 13, 2006}: Added support for gcc's alias attribute
  on functions.  See \secref{ugly-gcc}, item 8.  
\item {\bf December 9, 2005}: Christoph Spiel fixed the Golf and
  Olf modules so that Golf can be used with the points-to analysis.
  He also added performance fixes and cleaned up the documentation.
\item {\bf December 1, 2005}: Major rewrite of the ext/callgraph module. 
\item {\bf December 1, 2005}: Preserve enumeration constants in CIL. Default
is the old behavior to replace them with integers.
\item {\bf November 30, 2005}: Added support for many GCC \t{\_\_builtin}
  functions. 
\item {\bf November 30, 2005}: Added the EXTRAFEATURES configure
  option, making it easier to add Features to the build process.
\item {\bf November 23, 2005}: In MSVC mode do not remove any locals whose name
  appears as a substring in an inline assembly. 
\item {\bf November 23, 2005}: Do not add a return to functions that have the
  noreturn attribute. 
\item {\bf November 22, 2005}: {\bf Released version 1.3.4}
\item {\bf November 21, 2005}: Performance and correctness fixes for
  the Points-to Analysis module.  Thanks to Christoph Spiel for the
  patches.
\item {\bf October 5, 2005}: CIL now builds on SPARC/Solaris.  Thanks
  to Nick Petroni and Remco van Engelen for the patches.
\item {\bf September 26, 2005}: CIL no longer uses the `\t{-I-}' flag
  by default when preprocessing with gcc.
\item {\bf August 24, 2005}: Added a command-line option
  ``-{}-forceRLArgEval'' that forces function arguments to be evaluated
  right-to-left.  This is the default behavior in unoptimized gcc and
  MSVC, but the order of evaluation is undefined when using
  optimizations, unless you apply this CIL transformation.  This flag
  does not affect the order of evaluation of e.g. binary operators,
  which remains undefined.  Thanks to Nathan Cooprider for the patch.
\item {\bf August 9, 2005}: Fixed merging when there are more than 20
  input files.
\item {\bf August 3, 2005}: When merging, it is now an error to
  declare the same global variable twice with different initializers.
\item {\bf July 27, 2005}: Fixed bug in transparent unions.
\item {\bf July 27, 2005}: Fixed bug in collectInitializer.  Thanks to
  Benjamin Monate for the patch.
\item {\bf July 26, 2005}: Better support for extended inline assembly
  in gcc.
\item {\bf July 26, 2005}: Added many more gcc \_\_builtin* functions
  to CIL.  Most are treated as Call instructions, but a few are
  translated into expressions so that they can be used in global
  initializers.  For example, ``\t{\_\_builtin\_offsetof(t, field)}'' is
  rewritten as ``\t{\&((t*)0)->field}'', the traditional way of calculating
  an offset.
\item {\bf July 18, 2005}: Fixed bug in the constant folding of shifts
  when the second argument was negative or too large.
\item {\bf July 18, 2005}: Fixed bug where casts were not always
  inserted in function calls.
\item {\bf June 10, 2005}: Fixed bug in the code that makes implicit
  returns explicit.  We weren't handling switch blocks correctly.
\item {\bf June 1, 2005}: {\bf Released version 1.3.3}
\item {\bf May 31, 2005}: Fixed handling of noreturn attribute for function
  pointers. 
\item {\bf May 30, 2005}: Fixed bugs in the handling of constructors in gcc.
\item {\bf May 30, 2005}: Fixed bugs in the generation of global variable IDs.
\item {\bf May 27, 2005}: Reimplemented the translation of function calls so
  that we can intercept some builtins. This is important for the uses of
  \_\_builtin\_constant\_p in constants. 
\item {\bf May 27, 2005}: Export the plainCilPrinter, for debugging.
\item {\bf May 27, 2005}: Fixed bug with printing of const attribute for
  arrays. 
\item {\bf May 27, 2005}: Fixed bug in generation of type signatures. Now they
  should not contain expressions anymore, so you can use structural equality.
  This used to lead to Out\_of\_Memory exceptions.
\item {\bf May 27, 2005}: Fixed bug in type comparisons using
  TBuiltin\_va\_list.
\item {\bf May 27, 2005}: Improved the constant folding in array lengths and
  case expressions. 
\item {\bf May 27, 2005}: Added the \t{\_\_builtin\_frame\_address} to the set
  of gcc builtins.
\item {\bf May 27, 2005}: Added the CIL project to SourceForge.
\item {\bf April 23, 2005}: The cattr field was not visited.
\item {\bf March 6, 2005}: Debian packaging support
\item {\bf February 16, 2005}: Merger fixes.
\item {\bf February 11, 2005}: Fixed a bug in \t{-{}-dopartial}. Thanks to
Nathan Cooprider for this fix. 
\item {\bf January 31, 2005}: Make sure the input file is closed even if a
  parsing error is encountered. 
\item {\bf January 11, 2005}: {\bf Released version 1.3.2}
\item {\bf January 11, 2005}: Fixed printing of integer constants whose
  integer kind is shorter than an int. 
\item {\bf January 11, 2005}: Added checks for negative size arrays and arrays
  too big. 
\item {\bf January 10, 2005}: Added support for GCC attribute ``volatile'' for
  tunctions (as a synonim for noreturn). 
\item {\bf January 10, 2005}: Improved the comparison of array sizes when
  comparing array types. 
\item {\bf January 10, 2005}: Fixed handling of shell metacharacters in the
  cilly command lione.
\item {\bf January 10, 2005}: Fixed dropping of cast in initialization of
  local variable with the result of a function call.
\item {\bf January 10, 2005}: Fixed some structural comparisons that were
  broken in the Ocaml 3.08.
\item {\bf January 10, 2005}: Fixed the \t{unrollType} function to not forget
  attributes. 
\item {\bf January 10, 2005}: Better keeping track of locations of function
  prototypes and definitions. 
\item {\bf January 10, 2005}: Fixed bug with the expansion of enumeration
  constants in attributes.
\item {\bf October 18, 2004}: Fixed a bug in cabsvisit.ml. CIl would wrap a
  BLOCK around a single atom unnecessarily. 
\item {\bf August 7, 2004}: {\bf Released version 1.3.1}
\item {\bf August 4, 2004}: Fixed a bug in splitting of structs using 
  \t{-{}-dosimplify}
\item {\bf July 29, 2004}: Minor changes to the type typeSig (type signatures)
  to ensure that they do not contain types, so that you can do structural
  comparison without danger of nontermination. 
\item {\bf July 28, 2004}: Ocaml version 3.08 is required. Numerous small 
  changes while porting to Ocaml 3.08. 
\item {\bf July 7, 2004}: {\bf Released version 1.2.6}
\item {\bf July 2, 2004}:  Character constants such as \t{'c'} should
  have type \t{int}, not \t{char}.  Added a utility function
  \t{Cil.charConstToInt} that sign-extends chars greater than 128, if needed.
\item {\bf July 2, 2004}: Fixed a bug that was casting values to int
  before applying the logical negation operator !.  This caused
  problems for floats, and for integer types bigger than \t{int}.
\item {\bf June 13, 2004}: Added the field \t{sallstmts} to a function
  description, to hold all statements in the function.
\item {\bf June 13, 2004}: Added new extensions for data flow analyses, and
  for computing dominators.
\item {\bf June 10, 2004}: Force initialization of CIL at the start of
Cabs2cil. 
\item {\bf June 9, 2004}: Added support for GCC \t{\_\_attribute\_used\_\_}
\item {\bf April 7, 2004}: {\bf Released version 1.2.5}
\item {\bf April 7, 2004}: Allow now to run ./configure CC=cl and set the MSVC
compiler to be the default. The MSVC driver will now select the default name
of the .exe file like the CL compiler. 
\item {\bf April 7, 2004}: Fixed a bug in the driver. The temporary files are
deleted by the Perl script before the CL compiler gets to them?
\item {\bf April 7, 2004}: Added the - form of arguments to the MSVC driver.
\item {\bf April 7, 2004}: Added a few more GCC-specific string escapes, (, [,
\{, \%, E. 
\item {\bf April 7, 2004}: Fixed bug with continuation lines in MSVC.
\item {\bf April 6, 2004}: Fixed embarassing bug in the parser: the precedence
  of casts and unary operators was switched. 
\item {\bf April 5, 2004}: Fixed a bug involving statements mixed between
declarations containing initializers. Now we make sure that the initializers
are run in the proper order with respect to the statements.
\item {\bf April 5, 2004}: Fixed a bug in the merger. The merger was keeping
separate alpha renaming talbes (namespaces) for variables and types. This
means that it might end up with a type and a variable named the same way, if
they come from different files, which breaks an important CIL invariant.
\item {\bf March 11, 2004} : Fixed a bug in the Cil.copyFunction function. The
new local variables were not getting fresh IDs. 
\item {\bf March 5, 2004}: Fixed a bug in the handling of static function
  prototypes in a block scope. They used to be renamed. Now we just consider
  them global. 
\item {\bf February 20, 2004}: {\bf Released version 1.2.4}
\item {\bf February 15, 2004}: Changed the parser to allow extra semicolons
  after field declarations.
\item {\bf February 14, 2004}: Changed the Errormsg functions: error, unimp,
bug to not raise an exception. Instead they just set Errormsg.hadErrors. 
\item {\bf February 13, 2004}: Change the parsing of attributes to recognize
  enumeration constants.
\item {\bf February 10, 2004}: In some versions of \t{gcc} the identifier
  {\_\{thread} is an identifier and in others it is a keyword. Added code
  during configuration to detect which is the case. 
\item {\bf January 7, 2004}: {\bf Released version 1.2.3}
\item {\bf January 7, 2004}: Changed the alpha renamer to be less
conservative. It will remember all versions of a name that were seen and will
only create a new name if we have not seen one. 
\item {\bf December 30, 2003} : Extended the \t{cilly} command to understand
  better linker command options \t{-lfoo}. 
\item {\bf December 5, 2003}: Added markup commands to the pretty-printer
module. Also, changed the ``@<'' left-flush command into ``@\^''.
\item {\bf December 4, 2003}: Wide string literals are now handled
directly by Cil (rather than being exploded into arrays). This is
apparently handy for Microsoft Device Driver APIs that use intrinsic
functions that require literal constant wide-string arguments. 
\item {\bf December 3, 2003}: Added support for structured exception handling
  extensions for the Microsoft compilers.
\item {\bf December 1, 2003}: Fixed a Makefile bug in the generation of the 
Cil library (e.g., \t{cil.cma}) that was causing it to be unusable. Thanks
to KEvin Millikin for pointing out this bug. 
\item {\bf November 26, 2003}: Added support for linkage specifications
       (extern ``C''). 
\item {\bf November 26, 2003}: Added the ocamlutil directory to contain some
utilities shared with other projects. 
\item {\bf November 25, 2003}: {\bf Released version 1.2.2}
\item {\bf November 24, 2003}: Fixed a bug that allowed a static local to
  conflict with a global with the same name that is declared later in the
  file. 
\item {\bf November 24, 2003}: Removed the \t{-{}-keep} option of the \t{cilly}
  driver and replaced it with \t{-{}-save-temps}.
\item {\bf November 24, 2003}: Added printing of what CIL features are being
  run.
\item {\bf November 24, 2003}: Fixed a bug that resulted in attributes being
  dropped for integer types. 
\item {\bf November 11, 2003}: Fixed a bug in the visitor for enumeration
  definitions. 
\item {\bf October 24, 2003}: Fixed a problem in the configuration script. It
  was not recognizing the Ocaml version number for beta versions. 
\item {\bf October 15, 2003}: Fixed a problem in version 1.2.1 that was
  preventing compilation on OCaml 3.04.
\item {\bf September 17, 2003: Released version 1.2.1.}
\item {\bf September 7, 2003}: Redesigned the interface for choosing
  \texttt{\#line} directive printing styles.  Cil.printLn and
  Cil.printLnComment have been merged into Cil.lineDirectiveStyle.
\item {\bf August 8, 2003}: Do not silently pad out functions calls with
arguments to match the prototype. 
\item {\bf August 1, 2003}: A variety of fixes suggested by Steve Chamberlain:
initializers for externs, prohibit float literals in enum, initializers for
unsized arrays were not working always, an overflow problem in Ocaml, changed
the processing of attributes before struct specifiers

\item {\bf July 14, 2003}: Add basic support for GCC's "\_\_thread" storage
qualifier. If given, it will appear as a "thread" attribute at the top of the
type of the declared object. Treatment is very similar to "\_\_declspec(...)"
in MSVC

\item {\bf July 8, 2003}: Fixed some of the \_\_alignof computations. Fixed
  bug in the designated initializers for arrays (Array.get error).
\item {\bf July 8, 2003}: Fixed infinite loop bug (Stack Overflow) in the
  visitor for \_\_alignof.
\item {\bf July 8, 2003}: Fixed bug in the conversion to CIL. A function or
  array argument of
  the GCC \_\_typeof() was being converted to pointer type. Instead, it should
  be left alone, just like for sizeof.  
\item {\bf July 7, 2003}: New Escape module provides utility functions
  for escaping characters and strings in accordance with C lexical
  rules.

\item {\bf July 2, 2003}: Relax CIL's rules for when two enumeration types are
considered compatible. Previously CIL considered two enums to be compatible if
they were the same enum. Now we follow the C99 standard.


\item {\bf June 28, 2003}: In the Formatparse module, Eric Haugh found and
  fixed a bug in the handling of lvalues of the form ``lv->field.more''.

\item {\bf June 28, 2003}: Extended the handling of gcc command lines
arguments in the Perl scripts. 

\item {\bf June 23, 2003}: In Rmtmps module, simplified the API for
  customizing the root set.  Clients may supply a predicate that
  returns true for each root global.  Modifying various
  ``\texttt{referenced}'' fields directly is no longer supported.

\item {\bf June 17, 2003}: Reimplement internal utility routine
           \t{Cil.escape\_char}. Faster and better. 

\item {\bf June 14, 2003}: Implemented support for \t{\_\_attribute\_\_s}
appearing between "struct" and the struct tag name (also for unions and
enums), since gcc supports this as documented in section 4.30 of the gcc
(2.95.3) manual

\item {\bf May 30, 2003}: Released the regression tests. 
\item {\bf May 28, 2003}: {\bf Released version 1.1.2}
\item {\bf May 26, 2003}: Add the \t{simplify} module that compiles CIL
expressions into simpler expressions, similar to those that appear in a
3-address intermediate language.
\item {\bf May 26, 2003}: Various fixes and improvements to the pointer
analysis modules. 
\item {\bf May 26, 2003}: Added optional consistency checking for
transformations.
\item {\bf May 25, 2003}: Added configuration support for big endian machines.
Now \cilvalref{little\_endian} can be used to test whether the machine is
little endian or not. 
\item {\bf May 22, 2003}: Fixed a bug in the handling of inline functions. The
CIL merger used to turn these functions into ``static'', which is incorrect. 
\item {\bf May 22, 2003}: Expanded the CIL consistency checker to verify
undesired sharing relationships between data structures. 
\item {\bf May 22, 2003}: Fixed bug in the \t{oneret} CIL module: it was
mishandling certain labeled return statements. 
\item {\bf May 5, 2003}: {\bf Released version 1.0.11}
\item {\bf May 5, 2003}: OS X (powerpc/darwin) support for CIL. Special 
thanks to Jeff Foster, Andy Begel and Tim Leek. 
\item {\bf April 30, 2003}: Better description of how to use CIL for your
analysis. 
\item {\bf April 28, 2003}: Fixed a bug with \texttt{-{}-dooneRet} and
\texttt{-{}-doheapify}. Thanks, Manos Renieris.
\item {\bf April 16, 2003}: Reworked management of
  temporary/intermediate output files in Perl driver scripts.  Default
  behavior is now to remove all such files.  To keep intermediate
  files, use one of the following existing flags:
  \begin{itemize}
  \item \texttt{-{}-keepmerged} for the single-file merge of all sources
  \item \texttt{-{}-keep=<\textit{dir}>} for various other CIL and
    CCured output files
  \item \texttt{-{}-save-temps} for various gcc intermediate files; MSVC
    has no equivalent option
  \end{itemize}
  As part of this change, some intermediate files have changed their
  names slightly so that new suffixes are always preceded by a
  period.  For example, CCured output that used to appear in
  ``\texttt{foocured.c}'' now appears in ``\texttt{foo.cured.c}''.
\item {\bf April 7, 2003}: Changed the representation of the \cilvalref{GVar}
global constructor. Now it is possible to update the initializer without
reconstructing the global (which in turn it would require reconstructing the
list of globals that make up a program). We did this because it is often
tempting to use \cilvalref{visitCilFileSameGlobals} and the \cilvalref{GVar}
was the only global that could not be updated in place. 
\item {\bf April 6, 2003}: Reimplemented parts of the cilly.pl script to make
it more robust in the presence of complex compiler arguments. 
\item {\bf March 10, 2003}: {\bf Released version 1.0.9}
\item {\bf March 10, 2003}: Unified and documented a large number of CIL
Library Modules: oneret, simplemem, makecfg, heapify, stackguard, partial.
Also documented the main client interface for the pointer analysis. 
\item {\bf February 18, 2003}: Fixed a bug in logwrites that was causing it
to produce invalid C code on writes to bitfields. Thanks, David Park. 
\item {\bf February 15, 2003}: {\bf Released version 1.0.8}
\item {\bf February 15, 2003}: PDF versions of the manual and API are
available for those who would like to print them out. 
\item {\bf February 14, 2003}: CIL now comes bundled with alias analyses. 
\item {\bf February 11, 2003}: Added support for adding/removing options from
  \t{./configure}. 
\item {\bf February 3, 2003}: {\bf Released version 1.0.7}
\item {\bf February 1, 2003}: Some bug fixes in the handling of variable
argument functions in new versions of \t{gcc} And \t{glibc}. 
\item {\bf January 29, 2003}: Added the logical AND and OR operators.
Exapanded the translation to CIL to handle more complicated initializers
(including those that contain logical operators).
\item {\bf January 28, 2003}: {\bf Released version 1.0.6}
\item {\bf January 28, 2003}: Added support for the new handling of
variable-argument functions in new versions of \t{glibc}. 
\item {\bf January 19, 2003}: Added support for declarations in interpreted
  constructors. Relaxed the semantics of the patterns for variables. 
\item {\bf January 17, 2003}: Added built-in prototypes for the gcc built-in
  functions. Changed the \t{pGlobal} method in the printers to print the
  carriage return as well.
\item {\bf January 9, 2003}: Reworked lexer and parser's strategy for
  tracking source file names and line numbers to more closely match
  typical native compiler behavior.  The visible CIL interface is
  unchanged.
\item {\bf January 9, 2003}: Changed the interface to the alpha convertor. Now
you can pass a list where it will record undo information that you can use to
revert the changes that it makes to the scope tables.
\item {\bf January 6, 2003}: {\bf Released version 1.0.5}
\item {\bf January 4, 2003}: Changed the interface for the Formatcil module.
  Now the placeholders in the pattern have names. Also expanded the
  documentation of the Formatcil module.
  Now the placeholders in the pattern have names.
\item {\bf January 3, 2003}: Extended the \t{rmtmps} module to also remove
  unused labels that are generated in the conversion to CIL. This reduces the
  number of warnings that you get from \t{cgcc} afterwards.
\item {\bf December 17, 2002}: Fixed a few bugs in CIL related to the
  representation of string literals. The standard says that a string literal
  is an array. In CIL, a string literal has type pointer to character. This is
  Ok, except as an argument of sizeof. To support this exception, we have
  added to CIL the expression constructor SizeOfStr. This allowed us to fix
  bugs with computing \t{sizeof("foo bar")} and \t{sizeof((char*)"foo bar")}
  (the former is 8 and the latter is 4).

\item {\bf December 8, 2002}: Fixed a few bugs in the lexer and parser
  relating to hex and octal escapes in string literals.  Also fixed
  the dependencies between the lexer and parser.
\item {\bf December 5, 2002}: Fixed visitor bugs that were causing
  some attributes not to be visited and some queued instructions to be
  dropped.
\item {\bf December 3, 2002}: Added a transformation to catch stack
  overflows.  Fixed the heapify transformation.
\item {\bf October 14, 2002}: CIL is now available under the BSD license
(see the License section or the file LICENSE).  {\bf Released version 1.0.4}
\item {\bf October 9, 2002}: More FreeBSD configuration changes, support
for the GCC-ims {\tt \_\_signed} and {\tt \_\_volatile}. Thanks to Axel
Simon for pointing out these problems. {\bf Released version 1.0.3}
\item {\bf October 8, 2002}: FreeBSD configuration and porting fixes.
Thanks to Axel Simon for pointing out these problems. 
\item {\bf September 10, 2002}: Fixed bug in conversion to CIL. Now we drop
all ``const'' qualifiers from the types of locals, even from the fields of
local structures or elements of arrays.
\item {\bf September 7, 2002}: Extended visitor interface to distinguish visitng
  offsets inside lvalues from offsets inside initializer lists.
\item {\bf September 7, 2002}: {\bf Released version 1.0.1}
\item {\bf September 6, 2002}: Extended the patcher with the \t{ateof} flag.
\item {\bf September 4, 2002}: Fixed bug in the elaboration to CIL. In some
cases constant folding of \t{||} and \t{\&\&} was computed wrong.
\item {\bf September 3, 2002}: Fixed the merger documentation. 
\item {\bf August 29, 2002}: {\bf Released version 1.0.0.}
\item {\bf August 29, 2002}: Started numbering versions with a major nubmer,
minor and revisions. Released version 1.0.0.
\item {\bf August 25, 2002}: Fixed the implementation of the unique
identifiers for global variables and composites. Now those identifiers are
globally unique.
\item {\bf August 24, 2002}: Added to the machine-dependent configuration the
\t{sizeof{void}}. It is 1 on gcc and 0 on MSVC. Extended the implementation of
\t{Cil.bitsSizeOf} to handle this (it was previously returning an error when
trying to compute the size of \t{void}).
\item {\bf August 24, 2002}: Changed the representation of structure and
unions to distinguish between undefined structures and those that are defined
to be empty (allowed on gcc). The sizeof operator is undefined for the former
and returns 0 for the latter.
\item {\bf August 22, 2002}: Apply a patch from Richard H. Y. to support
FreeBSD installations. Thanks, Richard!
\item {\bf August 12, 2002}: Fixed a bug in the translation of wide-character
strings. Now this translation matches that of the underlying compiler. Changed
the implementation of the compiler dependencies.
\item {\bf May 25, 2002}: Added interpreted constructors and destructors.
\item {\bf May 17, 2002}: Changed the representation of functions to move the
``inline'' information to the varinfo. This way we can print the ``inline''
even in declarations which is what gcc does. 
\item {\bf May 15, 2002}: Changed the visitor for initializers to make two
tail-recursive passes (the second is a \t{List.rev} and only done if one of
the initializers change). This prevents \t{Stack\_Overflow} for large
initializers. Also improved the processing of initializers when converting to
CIL. 
\item {\bf May 15, 2002}: Changed the front-end to allow the use of \t{MSVC}
mode even on machines that do not have MSVC. The machine-dependent parameters
for GCC will be used in that case. 
\item {\bf May 11, 2002}: Changed the representation of formals in function
types. Now the function type is purely functional. 
\item {\bf May 4, 2002}: Added the function
\cilvalref{visitCilFileSameGlobals} and changed \cilvalref{visitCilFile} to be
tail recursive. This prevents stack overflow on huge files.
\item {\bf February 28, 2002}: Changed the significance of the
\t{CompoundInit} in \ciltyperef{init} to allow for missing initializers at the
end of an array initializer. Added the API function
\cilvalref{foldLeftCompoundAll}.
\end{itemize}

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