# CCMETA

C compiler with embedded metalanguage.

## <div id="toc">Table of contents<div>
1. [Architecture](#ar)
2. [Build the project](#bp)
   - [Requirements](#ar)
   - [Makefile](#makefile)
     - [Build](#makefile_Build)
     - [Clean](#makefile_Clean)
     - [Test](#makefile_Test)
3. [Usage](#usage)
4. [Help](#help)
   - [Peg/Leg](#pegleg)
5. [Authors](#authors)


## <div id="ar">Architecture<div>
![alt text](doc/ccmeta.drawio.png)
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## <div id="bp">Build the project<div>
### <div id="req">Requirements<div>

Please install [peg/leg](https://www.piumarta.com/software/peg/) manually or with a package manager, for example with Homebrew: 
```bash
$ brew install peg
```

Please install [the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector](https://www.hboehm.info/gc/) manually or with a package manager, for example with Homebrew:
```bash
$ brew install bdw-gc
```

### <div id="makefile"> Makefile<div>
>Compatible with the homebrew installed on the apple silicon ship

#### <div id="makefile_Build">Build<div>
```bash
$ make
```

#### <div id="makefile_Clean">Clean<div>
```bash
$ make clean
```

#### <div id="makefile_Test">Test <div>
```bash
$ make test
```
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## <div id="usage">Usage<div>
### How it works
You can pass your program:
* via an input file
```bash
$ ./ccmeta < file
```
* via a file
```bash
$ ./ccmeta file
```
### **Check each test file to get an idea of how parsimony works**
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## <div id="help">Help<div>

### <div id="pegleg">peg/leg<div>

``` shell
$ man peg
```
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## <div id="authors">Authors<div>
#### Ian Piumarta (2016-)
- infrastructure
- parsing framework
- C grammar, C AST
- object system design and implementation
- metalanguage design and implementation, features, development, etc.

#### Mahe Tardy (2020)
- object system implementation
- metalanguage implementation

#### Nathan Razafimanantsoa, Kumar Mahadayya (2021)
- C AST

#### Theo Souchon (2022-2023)
- metalanguage features, development, tests, examples
- grammar, object system changes for metalanguage
- source and repository reorganisation