[The following GPLed program may be of interest to you if: - You want examples of programs written in Haskell that do something useful. - You sometimes hack C code as well as Haskell and want to make your code smaller, faster or better structured. - You want a library of code for parsing and manipulating C programs. -- Alastair Reid www.haskell-consulting.com ] The University of Utah's Flux Research Group announces the first release of CMI, our cross-module inliner for C. CMI is an optimizing frontend for gcc which allows gcc to inline across module (i.e., function) boundaries without requiring you to put inline functions in header files or even mark inline functions for inlining. Get CMI's open source code and docs at: http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/knit/cmi.html CMI: o makes your code go faster; o is a preprocessor for gcc; o supports most gcc extensions and is able to deal with such notoriosly tricky code as the glibc header files; o works by merging multiple C files into one file, topologically sorting the definitions so that definitions come before uses, and marks functions as inline; o controls code-bloat by deleting dead code and inlining up until a user-specified budget is reached; o can use user-specified heuristics to select which functions to inline (we include a tool which uses gprof output to choose inlinings to illustrate this); CMI is part of an ongoing R&D effort. We seek feedback, external users, and collaborators whose experiences and insight will help evolve CMI. CMI is a small part of Knit, our C Components project. To join the knit-users or knit-announce mailing lists, send email to majordomo@flux.cs.utah.edu with, e.g., "subscribe knit-users" in the body. Thanks go to DARPA for their support, and thanks go to the entire Knit crew, but especially Alastair Reid, for the fine research, development, and hard work that led to this release. and Alastair says... Enjoy! Jay Lepreau, lepreau@cs.utah.edu Flux Research Group, School of Computing University of Utah