Ivy is a compiler and runtime library for anextended dialect of C that checks type, memory,and concurrency safety. Ivy supports the full Clanguage, and relies on a small number oflightweight annotations in the source code to keeptime and space overheads reasonable. Ivy isimplemented as a C-to-C compiler using gcc as itsbackend.License: BSD License (revised)Changes:
This is the first public release of Ivy. Itincorporates the previously available Deputy(type-safety for C) and HeapSafe(memory-management safety for C) projects. It addsa new component, SharC, which allows you to checkthat your threaded C programs share data as youintended. In particular, it prevents and/ordetects all data races. SharC is in a moreexperimental state and may impose significantruntime overheads in some programs.