The SUIF 1.x Compiler System

The SUIF (Stanford University Intermediate Format) 1.x compiler, developed by the Stanford Compiler Group, is a free infrastructure designed to support collaborative research in optimizing and parallelizing compilers.

Overview of the SUIF Compiler

The SUIF Software Distribution

The SUIF Documentation

SUIF-related Mailing Lists

Contributions by Other Research Groups

Research using SUIF (at Stanford and elsewhere)

Overview of the SUIF Compiler

Independently developed compilation passes work together by using a common intermediate format to represent programs. The system includes the following components:

Fortran and C front ends -> SUIF

SUIF -> Fortran and C

Data dependence analysis

A basic parallelizer

A loop-level locality optimizer

A visual SUIF code browser

The SUIF Software Distribution

Suif 1.3.0.5 Release

This is a release of the SUIF1 retroactive bug-fixes distribution 1.3.0.5. As you may know, the SUIF group has moved its development effort on from SUIF1 to SUIF Version 2. Some of you may have obtained the basesuif-2.0.0.alpha.38 release, which contained a version of SUIF1 modified to work in concert with an early release of SUIF2; various symbols were renamed "suif1_*" to not conflict with the same name in SUIF2. Since the naming scheme has changed in more recent SUIF2 code, this conflict is no longer a problem. We undid the name changes so that the only name changes visible to the user should be "libsuif1" and "suif1.h". This release should work with the new release of SUIF2. Conversion passes are already working. See the Suif 1x web pages for more documentation.

We have incorporated all the bug fixes people sent us about 1.3.0.[1-4], plus a few more. Please let us know if you find more problems. If it is a machine configuration problem, please try to figure out some patches yourself, since we don't have a lot of time to polish this more. Thanks.

Basesuif Package

basesuif-1.3.0.5

The base SUIF system, required before any of the other packages can be used. It untars itself into a directory called "suifhome".

Other Packages

These should be untarred in the directory suifhome/src.

suifbuilder-1.3.0.5

A library built on top of SUIF providing another interface for building SUIF code; requires basesuif.

baseparsuif-1.3.0.5

The basic SUIF parallelization system; requires basesuif and suifbuilder.

fortback-1.3.0.5

A SUIF-to-Fortran converter, to convert to a combination of Fortran and C to improve performance over conversion to C alone; requires basesuif.

suifcallgraph-1.3.0.5

A call-graph library for SUIF; requires baseparsuif and basesuif.

suifvbrowser-1.3.0.5

The SUIF Visual Browser: a graphical user interface to view SUIF files and their relations to input and output source code; requires suifcallgraph, baseparsuif, and basesuif, and also requires TCL/TK, a pair of packages that are available independently of SUIF.

suifcookbook-1.3.0.5

An introduction to construction of SUIF passes in ``cookbook'' form, going through several examples; requires basesuif, suifbuilder, and baseparsuif.

simplesuif-1.3.0.5

A simplified interface for SUIF for teaching compiler courses; requires basesuif. Most likely broken, since this was tied to the SUIF2.0.0.alpha.38 suif1_* renaming and hasn't been tested recently.