Herman Venter - The Common Compiler Infrastruture goes Open Source

Posted By: Peli de Halleux | Apr 15th @ 3:49 PM | 52,196 Views | 8 Comments

Herman Venter announces the Common Compiler Infrastructure (CCI) as an open source project on codeplex! CCI is a set of tools and components that are useful to build compilers: readers and writers for MSIL and symbol files, and more.
You’ve may have heard and probably used different incarnations of CCI in the past: the FxCop introspection engine, ILMerge, Spec# or Code Contracts are using CCI in many ways. Now, you can use it too:  just sync the sources, build it, tweak it, etc… It’s all there on codeplex at

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#Apr 15th @ 9:22 PM
mehdi311ggg
mehdi311ggg
Good
What's the difference between CCI and Phoenix SDK ? (It was also a compiler/runtime tool optimizer)
#Apr 16th @ 2:46 AM
joechung
joechung
I hope somebody is getting video of the talks at the Lang.NET Symposium happening this week.
#Apr 16th @ 8:14 AM
zoobar
zoobar

I thought he was going to show all the herms he invented.

#Apr 16th @ 8:51 AM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

Indeed. We have some great content from Lang .NET that will air in a few weeks.
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#Apr 16th @ 2:48 PM
akidan
akidan
This is some awesome news!!
#Apr 16th @ 10:02 PM
Herman Venter
Herman Venter

Phoenix and CCI certainly have areas of overlap and it is not always easy to decide when to use which.

 

I view Phoenix as a large and somewhat complicated tool kit that is primarily concerned with compiling unmanaged C/C++ to optimal machine code. Everything else is secondary and this has an impact on the usability of Phoenix for compiler front-end scenarios and simple MSIL production and consumption.

 

Use Phoenix when you are a Rocket Scientist and need to leverage the extensive support for control flow graphs, SSA and so on.

 

#Aug 3rd @ 12:49 PM
Early
Early

Good to see another open source project from Microsoft.

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