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CIBIC: C Implemented Bare and Ingenuous Compiler
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Build Requirements
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- flex >= 2.5.37
- bison >= 2.4.3
- gcc >= 4.7.3

Features
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- Complex declaration support (``int (*a)[10]``, ``int (*f)()``, ``int (*g(int ***e[10]))()``, etc.)
- Complex cast support (``(int (*)())addr``, ``(int (*)[10])addr``, etc.)
- ``typedef`` support (together with complex decl)
- Forward declaration
- Real Single Static Assignment (with dominator frontier, renaming, interval
  building and registor allocation algorithm)
- Sophisticated semantic checking
- Small memory footprint
- Sophisticated error reporting
- User-friendly AST printing