A Brainfuck to binary compiler using LLVM, written in OCaml

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README.md

About

This is a minimal compiler for the Brainfuck language, written for the purpose of practicing OCaml LLVM bindings and seeing how well LLVM optimizes arrays. Brainfuck commands are transformed to LLVM IR, which is generated in such a way that it is easy to optimize for LLVM's opt utility.

Building and usage

Building the bf compiler (Debian dependencies):

$ sudo apt-get install ocaml llvm-3.4 libllvm-3.4-ocaml-dev
$ make

Building a brainfuck program (plain and optimized):

$ make hello hello-opt  # compile file "hello.b" to binaries
$ ./hello
Hello World!
$ ./hello-opt
Hello World!

Quick compilation and running (deletes temporary binary after running):

$ echo ++++++++++++. | ./run.sh
$ ./run.sh < hello.b
Hello World!

Examining generated LLVM:

$ echo ++++++++++++. | ./bf
...
$ echo ++++++++++++. | ./bf | opt -O3 -S
...