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And <TT>maincil.ml</TT> has + been renamed <TT>main.ml</TT>. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 18, 2006</B>: Added a new module <A HREF="api/Cfg.html">Cfg</A> to compute the + control-flow graph. Unlike the older <A HREF="api/Cil.html#VALcomputeCFGInfo">Cil.computeCFGInfo</A>, + the new version does not modify the code. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 18, 2006</B>: Added several new analyses: reaching + definitions, available expressions, liveness analysis, and dead code + elimination. See Section <A HREF="ext.html#sec-Extension">8</A>. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 2, 2006</B>: Added a flag <TT>--noInsertImplicitCasts</TT>. + When this flag is used, CIL code will only include casts inserted by + the programmer. Implicit coercions are not changed to explicit casts. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 16, 2006</B>: Minor improvements to the <TT>--stats</TT> + flag (Section <A HREF="cil007.html#sec-cilly-asm-options">7.2</A>). We now use Pentium performance + counters by default, if your processor supports them. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 10, 2006</B>: Extended <TT>machdep.c</TT> 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 6, 2006</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 6, 2006</B>: Fix for bitfields in the SFI module. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 6, 2006</B>: Various fixes for gcc attributes. + <TT>packed</TT>, <TT>section</TT>, and <TT>always_inline</TT> attributes are now + parsed correctly. Also fixed printing of attributes on enum types. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>March 30, 2006</B>: Fix for <TT>rmtemps.ml</TT>, which deletes + unused inline functions. When in <TT>gcc</TT> mode CIL now leaves all + inline functions in place, since <TT>gcc</TT> treats these as externally + visible. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>March 15, 2006</B>: Fix for <TT>typeof(<I>e</I>)</TT> when <I>e</I> has type + <TT>void</TT>. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>March 3, 2006</B>: Assume inline assembly instructions can + fall through for the purposes of adding return statements. Thanks to + Nathan Cooprider for the patch. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>February 27, 2006</B>: Fix for extern inline functions when + the output of CIL is fed back into CIL. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 30, 2006</B>: Fix parsing of <TT>switch</TT> without braces. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 30, 2006</B>: Allow `$' to appear in identifiers. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 13, 2006</B>: Added support for gcc's alias attribute + on functions. See Section <A HREF="cil016.html#sec-ugly-gcc">16.2</A>, item 8. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>December 9, 2005</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>December 1, 2005</B>: Major rewrite of the ext/callgraph module. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>December 1, 2005</B>: Preserve enumeration constants in CIL. Default +is the old behavior to replace them with integers. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>November 30, 2005</B>: Added support for many GCC <TT>__builtin</TT> + functions. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>November 30, 2005</B>: Added the EXTRAFEATURES configure + option, making it easier to add Features to the build process. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>November 23, 2005</B>: In MSVC mode do not remove any locals whose name + appears as a substring in an inline assembly. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>November 23, 2005</B>: Do not add a return to functions that have the + noreturn attribute. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>November 22, 2005</B>: <B>Released version 1.3.4</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>November 21, 2005</B>: Performance and correctness fixes for + the Points-to Analysis module. Thanks to Christoph Spiel for the + patches. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>October 5, 2005</B>: CIL now builds on SPARC/Solaris. Thanks + to Nick Petroni and Remco van Engelen for the patches. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>September 26, 2005</B>: CIL no longer uses the `<TT>-I-</TT>' flag + by default when preprocessing with gcc. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>August 24, 2005</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>August 9, 2005</B>: Fixed merging when there are more than 20 + input files. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>August 3, 2005</B>: When merging, it is now an error to + declare the same global variable twice with different initializers. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 27, 2005</B>: Fixed bug in transparent unions. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 27, 2005</B>: Fixed bug in collectInitializer. Thanks to + Benjamin Monate for the patch. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 26, 2005</B>: Better support for extended inline assembly + in gcc. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 26, 2005</B>: 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, “<TT>__builtin_offsetof(t, field)</TT>” is + rewritten as “<TT>&((t*)0)->field</TT>”, the traditional way of calculating + an offset. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 18, 2005</B>: Fixed bug in the constant folding of shifts + when the second argument was negative or too large. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 18, 2005</B>: Fixed bug where casts were not always + inserted in function calls. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>June 10, 2005</B>: Fixed bug in the code that makes implicit + returns explicit. We weren't handling switch blocks correctly. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>June 1, 2005</B>: <B>Released version 1.3.3</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 31, 2005</B>: Fixed handling of noreturn attribute for function + pointers. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 30, 2005</B>: Fixed bugs in the handling of constructors in gcc. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 30, 2005</B>: Fixed bugs in the generation of global variable IDs. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 27, 2005</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 27, 2005</B>: Export the plainCilPrinter, for debugging. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 27, 2005</B>: Fixed bug with printing of const attribute for + arrays. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 27, 2005</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 27, 2005</B>: Fixed bug in type comparisons using + TBuiltin_va_list. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 27, 2005</B>: Improved the constant folding in array lengths and + case expressions. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 27, 2005</B>: Added the <TT>__builtin_frame_address</TT> to the set + of gcc builtins. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 27, 2005</B>: Added the CIL project to SourceForge. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 23, 2005</B>: The cattr field was not visited. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>March 6, 2005</B>: Debian packaging support +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>February 16, 2005</B>: Merger fixes. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>February 11, 2005</B>: Fixed a bug in <TT>--dopartial</TT>. Thanks to +Nathan Cooprider for this fix. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 31, 2005</B>: Make sure the input file is closed even if a + parsing error is encountered. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 11, 2005</B>: <B>Released version 1.3.2</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 11, 2005</B>: Fixed printing of integer constants whose + integer kind is shorter than an int. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 11, 2005</B>: Added checks for negative size arrays and arrays + too big. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 10, 2005</B>: Added support for GCC attribute “volatile” for + tunctions (as a synonim for noreturn). +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 10, 2005</B>: Improved the comparison of array sizes when + comparing array types. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 10, 2005</B>: Fixed handling of shell metacharacters in the + cilly command lione. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 10, 2005</B>: Fixed dropping of cast in initialization of + local variable with the result of a function call. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 10, 2005</B>: Fixed some structural comparisons that were + broken in the Ocaml 3.08. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 10, 2005</B>: Fixed the <TT>unrollType</TT> function to not forget + attributes. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 10, 2005</B>: Better keeping track of locations of function + prototypes and definitions. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 10, 2005</B>: Fixed bug with the expansion of enumeration + constants in attributes. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>October 18, 2004</B>: Fixed a bug in cabsvisit.ml. CIl would wrap a + BLOCK around a single atom unnecessarily. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>August 7, 2004</B>: <B>Released version 1.3.1</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>August 4, 2004</B>: Fixed a bug in splitting of structs using + <TT>--dosimplify</TT> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 29, 2004</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 28, 2004</B>: Ocaml version 3.08 is required. Numerous small + changes while porting to Ocaml 3.08. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 7, 2004</B>: <B>Released version 1.2.6</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 2, 2004</B>: Character constants such as <TT>'c'</TT> should + have type <TT>int</TT>, not <TT>char</TT>. Added a utility function + <TT>Cil.charConstToInt</TT> that sign-extends chars greater than 128, if needed. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 2, 2004</B>: 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 <TT>int</TT>. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>June 13, 2004</B>: Added the field <TT>sallstmts</TT> to a function + description, to hold all statements in the function. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>June 13, 2004</B>: Added new extensions for data flow analyses, and + for computing dominators. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>June 10, 2004</B>: Force initialization of CIL at the start of +Cabs2cil. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>June 9, 2004</B>: Added support for GCC <TT>__attribute_used__</TT> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 7, 2004</B>: <B>Released version 1.2.5</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 7, 2004</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 7, 2004</B>: Fixed a bug in the driver. The temporary files are +deleted by the Perl script before the CL compiler gets to them? +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 7, 2004</B>: Added the - form of arguments to the MSVC driver. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 7, 2004</B>: Added a few more GCC-specific string escapes, (, [, +{, %, E. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 7, 2004</B>: Fixed bug with continuation lines in MSVC. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 6, 2004</B>: Fixed embarassing bug in the parser: the precedence + of casts and unary operators was switched. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 5, 2004</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 5, 2004</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>March 11, 2004</B> : Fixed a bug in the Cil.copyFunction function. The +new local variables were not getting fresh IDs. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>March 5, 2004</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>February 20, 2004</B>: <B>Released version 1.2.4</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>February 15, 2004</B>: Changed the parser to allow extra semicolons + after field declarations. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>February 14, 2004</B>: Changed the Errormsg functions: error, unimp, +bug to not raise an exception. Instead they just set Errormsg.hadErrors. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>February 13, 2004</B>: Change the parsing of attributes to recognize + enumeration constants. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>February 10, 2004</B>: In some versions of <TT>gcc</TT> the identifier + _{thread is an identifier and in others it is a keyword. Added code + during configuration to detect which is the case. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 7, 2004</B>: <B>Released version 1.2.3</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 7, 2004</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>December 30, 2003</B> : Extended the <TT>cilly</TT> command to understand + better linker command options <TT>-lfoo</TT>. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>December 5, 2003</B>: Added markup commands to the pretty-printer +module. Also, changed the “@<” left-flush command into “@''. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>December 4, 2003</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>December 3, 2003</B>: Added support for structured exception handling + extensions for the Microsoft compilers. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>December 1, 2003</B>: Fixed a Makefile bug in the generation of the +Cil library (e.g., <TT>cil.cma</TT>) that was causing it to be unusable. Thanks +to KEvin Millikin for pointing out this bug. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>November 26, 2003</B>: Added support for linkage specifications + (extern “C”). +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>November 26, 2003</B>: Added the ocamlutil directory to contain some +utilities shared with other projects. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>November 25, 2003</B>: <B>Released version 1.2.2</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>November 24, 2003</B>: Fixed a bug that allowed a static local to + conflict with a global with the same name that is declared later in the + file. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>November 24, 2003</B>: Removed the <TT>--keep</TT> option of the <TT>cilly</TT> + driver and replaced it with <TT>--save-temps</TT>. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>November 24, 2003</B>: Added printing of what CIL features are being + run. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>November 24, 2003</B>: Fixed a bug that resulted in attributes being + dropped for integer types. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>November 11, 2003</B>: Fixed a bug in the visitor for enumeration + definitions. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>October 24, 2003</B>: Fixed a problem in the configuration script. It + was not recognizing the Ocaml version number for beta versions. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>October 15, 2003</B>: Fixed a problem in version 1.2.1 that was + preventing compilation on OCaml 3.04. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>September 17, 2003: Released version 1.2.1.</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>September 7, 2003</B>: Redesigned the interface for choosing + <TT>#line</TT> directive printing styles. Cil.printLn and + Cil.printLnComment have been merged into Cil.lineDirectiveStyle. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>August 8, 2003</B>: Do not silently pad out functions calls with +arguments to match the prototype. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>August 1, 2003</B>: 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<BR> +<BR> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 14, 2003</B>: 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<BR> +<BR> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 8, 2003</B>: Fixed some of the __alignof computations. Fixed + bug in the designated initializers for arrays (Array.get error). +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 8, 2003</B>: Fixed infinite loop bug (Stack Overflow) in the + visitor for __alignof. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 8, 2003</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 7, 2003</B>: New Escape module provides utility functions + for escaping characters and strings in accordance with C lexical + rules.<BR> +<BR> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>July 2, 2003</B>: 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.<BR> +<BR> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>June 28, 2003</B>: In the Formatparse module, Eric Haugh found and + fixed a bug in the handling of lvalues of the form “lv->field.more”.<BR> +<BR> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>June 28, 2003</B>: Extended the handling of gcc command lines +arguments in the Perl scripts. <BR> +<BR> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>June 23, 2003</B>: 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 + “<TT>referenced</TT>” fields directly is no longer supported.<BR> +<BR> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>June 17, 2003</B>: Reimplement internal utility routine + <TT>Cil.escape_char</TT>. Faster and better. <BR> +<BR> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>June 14, 2003</B>: Implemented support for <TT>__attribute__s</TT> +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<BR> +<BR> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 30, 2003</B>: Released the regression tests. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 28, 2003</B>: <B>Released version 1.1.2</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 26, 2003</B>: Add the <TT>simplify</TT> module that compiles CIL +expressions into simpler expressions, similar to those that appear in a +3-address intermediate language. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 26, 2003</B>: Various fixes and improvements to the pointer +analysis modules. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 26, 2003</B>: Added optional consistency checking for +transformations. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 25, 2003</B>: Added configuration support for big endian machines. +Now <A HREF="api/Cil.html#VALlittle_endian">Cil.little_endian</A> can be used to test whether the machine is +little endian or not. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 22, 2003</B>: Fixed a bug in the handling of inline functions. The +CIL merger used to turn these functions into “static”, which is incorrect. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 22, 2003</B>: Expanded the CIL consistency checker to verify +undesired sharing relationships between data structures. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 22, 2003</B>: Fixed bug in the <TT>oneret</TT> CIL module: it was +mishandling certain labeled return statements. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 5, 2003</B>: <B>Released version 1.0.11</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 5, 2003</B>: OS X (powerpc/darwin) support for CIL. Special +thanks to Jeff Foster, Andy Begel and Tim Leek. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 30, 2003</B>: Better description of how to use CIL for your +analysis. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 28, 2003</B>: Fixed a bug with <TT>--dooneRet</TT> and +<TT>--doheapify</TT>. Thanks, Manos Renieris. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 16, 2003</B>: 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: + <UL CLASS="itemize"><LI CLASS="li-itemize"> + <TT>--keepmerged</TT> for the single-file merge of all sources + <LI CLASS="li-itemize"><TT>--keep=<<I>dir</I></TT><TT>></TT> for various other CIL and + CCured output files + <LI CLASS="li-itemize"><TT>--save-temps</TT> for various gcc intermediate files; MSVC + has no equivalent option + </UL> + 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 + “<TT>foocured.c</TT>” now appears in “<TT>foo.cured.c</TT>”. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 7, 2003</B>: Changed the representation of the <A HREF="api/Cil.html#VALGVar">Cil.GVar</A> +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 <A HREF="api/Cil.html#VALvisitCilFileSameGlobals">Cil.visitCilFileSameGlobals</A> and the <A HREF="api/Cil.html#VALGVar">Cil.GVar</A> +was the only global that could not be updated in place. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>April 6, 2003</B>: Reimplemented parts of the cilly.pl script to make +it more robust in the presence of complex compiler arguments. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>March 10, 2003</B>: <B>Released version 1.0.9</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>March 10, 2003</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>February 18, 2003</B>: Fixed a bug in logwrites that was causing it +to produce invalid C code on writes to bitfields. Thanks, David Park. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>February 15, 2003</B>: <B>Released version 1.0.8</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>February 15, 2003</B>: PDF versions of the manual and API are +available for those who would like to print them out. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>February 14, 2003</B>: CIL now comes bundled with alias analyses. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>February 11, 2003</B>: Added support for adding/removing options from + <TT>./configure</TT>. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>February 3, 2003</B>: <B>Released version 1.0.7</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>February 1, 2003</B>: Some bug fixes in the handling of variable +argument functions in new versions of <TT>gcc</TT> And <TT>glibc</TT>. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 29, 2003</B>: Added the logical AND and OR operators. +Exapanded the translation to CIL to handle more complicated initializers +(including those that contain logical operators). +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 28, 2003</B>: <B>Released version 1.0.6</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 28, 2003</B>: Added support for the new handling of +variable-argument functions in new versions of <TT>glibc</TT>. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 19, 2003</B>: Added support for declarations in interpreted + constructors. Relaxed the semantics of the patterns for variables. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 17, 2003</B>: Added built-in prototypes for the gcc built-in + functions. Changed the <TT>pGlobal</TT> method in the printers to print the + carriage return as well. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 9, 2003</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 9, 2003</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 6, 2003</B>: <B>Released version 1.0.5</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 4, 2003</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>January 3, 2003</B>: Extended the <TT>rmtmps</TT> module to also remove + unused labels that are generated in the conversion to CIL. This reduces the + number of warnings that you get from <TT>cgcc</TT> afterwards. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>December 17, 2002</B>: 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 <TT>sizeof("foo bar")</TT> and <TT>sizeof((char*)"foo bar")</TT> + (the former is 8 and the latter is 4).<BR> +<BR> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>December 8, 2002</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>December 5, 2002</B>: Fixed visitor bugs that were causing + some attributes not to be visited and some queued instructions to be + dropped. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>December 3, 2002</B>: Added a transformation to catch stack + overflows. Fixed the heapify transformation. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>October 14, 2002</B>: CIL is now available under the BSD license +(see the License section or the file LICENSE). <B>Released version 1.0.4</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>October 9, 2002</B>: More FreeBSD configuration changes, support +for the GCC-ims <TT>__signed</TT> and <TT>__volatile</TT>. Thanks to Axel +Simon for pointing out these problems. <B>Released version 1.0.3</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>October 8, 2002</B>: FreeBSD configuration and porting fixes. +Thanks to Axel Simon for pointing out these problems. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>September 10, 2002</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>September 7, 2002</B>: Extended visitor interface to distinguish visitng + offsets inside lvalues from offsets inside initializer lists. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>September 7, 2002</B>: <B>Released version 1.0.1</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>September 6, 2002</B>: Extended the patcher with the <TT>ateof</TT> flag. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>September 4, 2002</B>: Fixed bug in the elaboration to CIL. In some +cases constant folding of <TT>||</TT> and <TT>&&</TT> was computed wrong. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>September 3, 2002</B>: Fixed the merger documentation. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>August 29, 2002</B>: <B>Released version 1.0.0.</B> +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>August 29, 2002</B>: Started numbering versions with a major nubmer, +minor and revisions. Released version 1.0.0. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>August 25, 2002</B>: Fixed the implementation of the unique +identifiers for global variables and composites. Now those identifiers are +globally unique. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>August 24, 2002</B>: Added to the machine-dependent configuration the +<TT>sizeofvoid</TT>. It is 1 on gcc and 0 on MSVC. Extended the implementation of +<TT>Cil.bitsSizeOf</TT> to handle this (it was previously returning an error when +trying to compute the size of <TT>void</TT>). +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>August 24, 2002</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>August 22, 2002</B>: Apply a patch from Richard H. Y. to support +FreeBSD installations. Thanks, Richard! +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>August 12, 2002</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 25, 2002</B>: Added interpreted constructors and destructors. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 17, 2002</B>: 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. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 15, 2002</B>: Changed the visitor for initializers to make two +tail-recursive passes (the second is a <TT>List.rev</TT> and only done if one of +the initializers change). This prevents <TT>Stack_Overflow</TT> for large +initializers. Also improved the processing of initializers when converting to +CIL. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 15, 2002</B>: Changed the front-end to allow the use of <TT>MSVC</TT> +mode even on machines that do not have MSVC. The machine-dependent parameters +for GCC will be used in that case. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 11, 2002</B>: Changed the representation of formals in function +types. Now the function type is purely functional. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>May 4, 2002</B>: Added the function +<A HREF="api/Cil.html#VALvisitCilFileSameGlobals">Cil.visitCilFileSameGlobals</A> and changed <A HREF="api/Cil.html#VALvisitCilFile">Cil.visitCilFile</A> to be +tail recursive. This prevents stack overflow on huge files. +<LI CLASS="li-itemize"><B>February 28, 2002</B>: Changed the significance of the +<TT>CompoundInit</TT> in <A HREF="api/Cil.html#TYPEinit">Cil.init</A> to allow for missing initializers at the +end of an array initializer. Added the API function +<A HREF="api/Cil.html#VALfoldLeftCompoundAll">Cil.foldLeftCompoundAll</A>. +</UL> +<HR> +<A HREF="cil019.html"><IMG SRC ="previous_motif.gif" ALT="Previous"></A> +<A HREF="ciltoc.html"><IMG SRC ="contents_motif.gif" ALT="Up"></A> +</BODY> +</HTML> |