Welcome to ABC
ABC: A C Front-end
ABC is a Java-based C front-end. It provides a pre-processor and parser for C programs. These produce an Abstract Syntax Tree representation of the program. The AST includes information such as the type of every expression, the "symbol table" (i.e., the mapping which yields the entity corresponding to each identifier in the program), and a precise description of the origin of each AST element in the original source files. There is also support for transforming ASTs.
The ABC interface is intended to be thoroughly documented and easy to use. The code is 100% Java.
No one is sure what ABC stands for. It may stand for "ANTLR-Based C front-end" because it uses the ANTLR parser generator at several steps. However, ABC goes significantly beyond the services provided by these ANTLR parsers. ABC may stand for "A Better C front-end" or using it may be as easy as the "ABCs".
ABC is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lessor General Public License (LGPL).
Install ABC
Latest Release
- http://vsl.cis.udel.edu/lib/sw/abc/trunk/latest/ -- the Junit report, download for the latest unstable release.
