PCIT-CPP

PCIT (pronounced "P-Kit") is the Panther Compiler Infrastructure and Toolchain, and the home of the Panther programming language. Check out the PCIT Project website (www.pcitproject.org) for more information.

Note

This is in the very early stages and as such is not usable yet. If you really want to try it now (without any documentation), you can modify Panther-old/exec/main.cpp.

Tools

• Panther: Statically-typed, high-performance, general-purpose programming language
• PIR: Pronounced "P I R". Compiler IR and SSA-based optimizing back-end.
• PLNK: Pronounced "plink". Linker that aims to make use between platforms (including cross-compilation and linking against libc) as seamless as possible.

Building:

The build instructions can be found here.

Versioning:

The versioning scheme is as follows: [major].[release].[minor].[patch]. A "release" is the number of the release within the major version. This is zero-indexed if major is >= 1, otherwise it is one-indexed. Any versions within releases is not expected to necessarily be bug-free and stable. For brevity, the minor and patch may be left off (making it just [major].[release])

Expected Timeline:

• 0.1: (the first release)
  • Panther/pthr working enough to give to testers. Some major features will be missing. Some documentation will exist
  • Bare-bones version of the Linker library will also be working
  • Bare-bones version of PIR library
• 0.2:
  • Some missing features of Panther added
• in-between:
  • TBD
• 1.0:
  • The project is "released" and is production ready

Updates:

List of changes for each version can be found here. Note: very small changes may not be listed.