Chapter 4. The Frontend
The compiler frontend converts source code into the compiler's intermediate representation prior to target-specific code generation. Since programming languages have distinct syntax and semantic domains, frontends usually handle either a single language or a group of similar ones. Clang, for instance, handles C, C++, and objective-C source code inputs. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- How to link programs with Clang libraries and use
libclang - Clang diagnostics and the Clang frontend stages
- Lexical, syntactical, and semantic analyses with
libclangexamples - How to write a simplified compiler driver that uses the C++ Clang libraries
Introducing Clang
The Clang project is known as the official LLVM frontend for ...
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