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Re: Using GCC's front-end to parse SystemC


On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Hi ! 
> 
> For my Ph. D thesis, I'm going to apply formal verification methods to
> SystemC programs. 
> 
> (For your information, SystemC is an open source library for C++ which
> allows the modeling  of Systems on a Chip  (complex hardware systems).
> It has primitives to model mainly concurency and communication between
> modules.)
> 
> In short, I'd like to reuse GCC's front-end to generate a formal model
> of the program. RTL description seems  to be to low level for my work,
> so, I'm studying the possibilities of the tree representation.

This sounds kinda bad. It's like buying a Honda Accord because you need a
few metric bolts. You would have to learn too much to use gcc's front end.

You might want to look at something more lightweight instead, like lcc.

Toshi



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