LLVM based tooling with IFX

[Maxime_Cabanal]

Hi,

As I understood, the new compiler IFX is based on LLVM stack for its backend I suppose, could this mean we can hope for or develop tooling around it freely?

I am thinking about a fortran-tidy (a clang-tidy but with IFX), including linting, fixes and custom checks in order to enable automated codebase-scale refactoring.

Could something like this be possible?

Regards

Maxime

[Ron_Green · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately probably no.  We do not allow users to dump LLVM IR with our compiler.  And our AST is a proprietary format without AST manipulation or parsing tools.  

There are similar efforts as what you suggest for the open source LLVM Flang compiler.  That would allow tools to parse the AST for what you propose.