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Ivory is an embedded domain specific language (EDSL) which aims to provide a systems-level programming language that removes some common pitfalls of programming in C, without sacrificing expressivity.

This repository includes a user guide and some examples Ivory programs. More information and tutorials are available on ivorylang.org.

The following paper describes the Ivory language:

  • Trevor Elliott, Lee Pike, Simon Winwood, Pat Hickey, James Bielman, Jamey Sharp, Eric Seidel, John Launchbury. Guilt-free Ivory. Haskell Symposium, 2015.

Please cite this paper for when citing the language.

Contents

  • ivory: the Ivory language implementation and interpreter
  • ivory-backend-c: a backend for compiling Ivory programs to C
  • ivory-examples: sample Ivory programs
  • ivory-opts: an optimization framework and some optimization implementations, for the Ivory AST.
  • ivory-bitdata: a macro language library for specifying bit-precise Ivory operations.
  • ivory-hw: a macro language library for writing hardware drivers in Ivory.
  • ivory-model-check: a backend for verifying Ivory programs with CVC4

Installing

Ivory is written in Haskell and uses several recent GHC extensions. It is known to work with with GHC 7.8.* and above.

We currently recommend using the Stack build tool for Ivory language packages and any programs which use them.

Copyright and license

Copyright 2013-2015 Galois, Inc.

Licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License; you may not use this work except in compliance with the License. A copy of the License is included in the LICENSE file.

Contributing

This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to smaccm@galois.com.