Fedora 18 Update: ocaml-cil-1.4.0-6.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-20337
2012-12-14 06:37:20
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Name        : ocaml-cil
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.4.0
Release     : 6.fc18
URL         : http://cil.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : CIL - Infrastructure for C Program Analysis and Transformation
Description :
CIL (C Intermediate Language) is a high-level representation along
with a set of tools that permit easy analysis and source-to-source
transformation of C programs.

CIL is both lower-level than abstract-syntax trees, by clarifying
ambiguous constructs and removing redundant ones, and also
higher-level than typical intermediate languages designed for
compilation, by maintaining types and a close relationship with the
source program. The main advantage of CIL is that it compiles all
valid C programs into a few core constructs with a very clean
semantics. Also CIL has a syntax-directed type system that makes it
easy to analyze and manipulate C programs. Furthermore, the CIL
front-end is able to process not only ANSI-C programs but also those
using Microsoft C or GNU C extensions. If you do not use CIL and want
instead to use just a C parser and analyze programs expressed as
abstract-syntax trees then your analysis will have to handle a lot of
ugly corners of the language (let alone the fact that parsing C itself
is not a trivial task).

In essence, CIL is a highly-structured, "clean" subset of C. CIL
features a reduced number of syntactic and conceptual forms. For
example, all looping constructs are reduced to a single form, all
function bodies are given explicit return statements, syntactic sugar
like "->" is eliminated and function arguments with array types become
pointers.

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Update Information:

Update OCaml to attempt to fix RHBZ#877128.
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Dec  2 2012 Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> - 1.4.0-6
- Rebuild for ocaml 4.0.1.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #877128 - Ocaml tries to allocate a ridiculous amount of memory
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=877128
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