phc manual

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Users’ manual

• Introduction
• Installation Instructions
  • System Requirements
  • PHP embed SAPI installation instructions
  • Installation Instructions
  • Troubleshooting
    • Repository
    • Boost
• Running phc
  • Compiling executables
  • Code Optimizaton
  • Compiling web applications
    • Alternatives
  • Writing and Reading XML
  • Internal Representations
  • Graphical Output
  • Including files

Developers’ manual

• Introduction
  • System Requirements
  • Building PHP for phc development
• Demonstration
  • The Source Program
  • The Transform
  • The Result
• Optimization
  • The Pass Manager
  • Listing Passes
  • Writing an Optimization
  • Dumping a Control Flow Graph
  • Writing and Dumping Debug Information

Tree Traversal API Tutorials

• Introduction
• Getting Started
  • Compiling a Plugin
  • About extern "C"
  • Abstract Syntax
  • The Abstract Syntax Tree
  • Working with the AST
  • Actually..
  • Writing Stand Alone Applications
  • What’s Next?
• Traversing the Tree
  • The Grammar (Revisited)
  • Statements and Expressions
  • The Difficult Solution
  • The Easy Solution
  • Pre and Post Methods
• Modifying Tree Nodes
  • First Attempt
  • Modifying the Parameters
  • Refactoring
  • What’s Next?
• Restructuring the Tree
  • Introducing the Tree_transform API
  • The Implementation
  • Running Transformations
  • A Subtlety
  • What’s Next?
• Using State
  • The Implementation
  • What’s Next?
• Modifying the Traversal Order
  • The Solution
  • What’s Next?
• Returning Lists
  • Deleting Nodes
  • Using the XML unparser
  • The Full Transform
  • What’s Next?

Reference

• Introduction
• The Abstract Grammar
  • Overall Structure
  • Statements
  • Expressions
  • Additional Structure
  • Mix-in Code
• Representing PHP
  • Variables
  • Comments
  • String parsing
  • elseif
  • Miscellaneous Other Changes
  • Comparison to the PHP grammar
• Limitations
  • Comments
  • Numbers
  • Scopes
  • Other issues
• Overview of the AST classes and transformation API
  • The AST classes
  • Deep Equality
  • Cloning
  • Pattern Matching
  • The Visitor API
  • The Transform API
• Maketea Theory
  • Introduction
  • The Grammar Formalism
  • Context Resolution
    • Contexts
  • Reducing Contexts
  • Resolution for Disjunctions

Developers’ Guide

• Other sources of information
• Coding Guide
  • Debugging
  • phc idoms
    • Garbage collection
    • foreach-loop
• Test-suite
  • Parallelizing
  • Options
  • 3rd-party tests
• Porting and Packaging
  • We need porters, packagers and maintainers
  • Packaging hints
  • phc packages

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