CIR - Intermediate representation language

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CIR, aka Clang IR, is an intermediate representation language created in 2020.

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Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/facebookincubator/clangir

A new high-level IR for clang.

CIR website
CIR is developed on GitHub and has 150 stars
CIR first developed in Engineering at Meta
Read more about CIR on the web: 1. 2.

Example from the web:

// Read from local variable, address in %0.
%1 = cir.load %0 : !cir.ptr<i32>, i32

// Load address from memory at address %0. %3 is used by at least one
// operation that dereferences a pointer.
%3 = cir.load deref %0 : cir.ptr <!cir.ptr<i32>>

Language features

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Comments	✓		// A comment
Line Comments	✓	//	// A comment
Semantic Indentation	X