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VAST is an experimental compiler pipeline designed for program analysis of C and C++. It provides a tower of IRs as MLIR dialects to choose the best fit representations for a program analysis or further program abstraction.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

VAST is an experimental compiler pipeline designed for program analysis of C and C++. It provides a tower of IRs as MLIR dialects to choose the best fit representations for a program analysis or further program abstraction.

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 6:01:32 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-10-29 21:30:41 UTC to 2023-08-24 11:24:47 UTC.

0122022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsOct 20222022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 20232023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 2023

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Oct 20222022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Nov 20222022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20222022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20232023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20232023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20232023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20232023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20232023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20232023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20232023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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k4st·Jul 26, 2023
At Trail of Bits, we've been working on this type of IR for C and C++ code [1]. We operate as a kind of Clang middle end, taking in a Clang AST, and spitting LLVM IR that is Clang-compatible out the other end. In this middle area, we progressively lower from a high-level MLIR dialect down to LLVM. [1] https://github.com/trailofbits/vast
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