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README.adoc
bfc
bfc is a small, fast, self-contained, optimizing Brainfuck compiler for *nix on Intel x86-64.
Also included are several interpreters in various states of sophistication that document my progress as I was writing this, from the simplest approach to an optimizing JIT compiler.
It’s pretty easy to retarget the compiler, it just means redoing half the work. Thanks to the unified ABI, adding support for another flavour of *nix only means changing the syscall numbers. The compiler itself is platform agnostic.
Building
Build dependencies: a C99 compiler
Runtime dependencies: Linux or OpenBSD
$ git clone https://github.com/pjanouch/bfc.git $ cd bfc $ make
To obtain dumps of the intermediate representation, compile with -DDEBUG
:
$ make CPPFLAGS=-DDEBUG
Usage
$ ./bfc-amd64-linux [INPUT-FILE] [OUTPUT-FILE] $ ./bfc-amd64-openbsd [INPUT-FILE] [OUTPUT-FILE]
When no input file is specified, standard input is used. Similarly, the default
output filename is a.out
. After the compilation, the resulting file can be
run on the target platform.
gdb
You may have noticed the gdb-experiment.go
file. It is a non-optimizing
version of the compiler targeting Linux only that adds DWARF debugging
information mapping code locations onto lines in the ir-dump.txt
byproduct
output file. It’s been rewritten in Go since managing all those binary buffers
required to build the symbol table proved to be too painful in C.
$ go run gdb-experiment.go [INPUT-FILE] [OUTPUT-FILE]
Use break *0x4000b7
to get a breakpoint at the first Brainfuck instruction.
There is also gdb-object-file.go
that generates an object file that can be
statically linked with ld
, and gdb-object-file-libc.go
generates an
OS-independent binary that can be linked against the libc with the C compiler:
$ go run gdb-object-file-libc.go program.bf program.o $ cc program.o -o program
Contributing and Support
Use this project’s GitHub to report any bugs, request features, or submit pull requests. If you want to discuss this project, or maybe just hang out with the developer, feel free to join me at irc://irc.janouch.name, channel #dev.
Bitcoin donations: 12r5uEWEgcHC46xd64tt3hHt9EUvYYDHe9
License
bfc is written by Přemysl Janouch <p.janouch@gmail.com>.
You may use the software under the terms of the ISC license, the text of which is included within the package, or, at your option, you may relicense the work under the MIT or the Modified BSD License, as listed at the following site: