fk

(WIP) A Brainfuck compiler based on LLVM.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Planned features
• Getting started
  • Dependencies
  • Building from source
  • Running
• License

Introduction

fk is a Brainfuck compiler based on LLVM.

Brainfuck source is compiled to LLVM Intermediate Representation, which is then compiled and linked to binary objects.

Planned features

• Report syntax errors and warnings
  • unmatched brackets
  • cell pointer out of bounds
• Peephole optimizations
  • combine successive increments/decrements
  • simplify [-] loop, set the cell to zero instead
  • remove loops at the beginning of the program
  • remove successive loops
  • skip loops at known zeroes
  • remove increments/decrements overwritten by ,
• Cell usage analysis
  • determine how many cells a Brainfuck program requires
  • don't allocate/zero-initialize more cells than needed
• Compile-time evaluation
  • input-independent evaluations may be performed at compile time

Getting started

Dependencies

• A compiler with C++11 support (gcc >= 4.8.1, clang >= 3.3)
• CMake (>= 3.1.0)
• llvm (>= 3.9.0)

Buiding from source

Please report any problems you run into when building the project.

$ git clone https://github.com/bozbalci/fk
$ mkdir fk/build
$ cd fk/build
$ cmake ..
$ sudo make install

Running

Currently, fk cannot create and link objects, but you can run Brainfuck programs directly using the fk command:

$ fk hello.b
Hello, World!

License

fk is licensed under the BSD 2-clause license. See LICENSE for more information.