C Instrumentation Framework

CIF 1.1 was released!

There are following important changes and fixes:

• Supporting additional special directive for source code queries:
  • $storage_class that allows to get storage classes for functions and variables.
  • $var_init_list_json that allows to print global variable initializers in JSON.
• Fixing Aspectator to keep storage classes for variables.
• Improving and fixing Aspectator’s C back-end:
  • Fixing initialization of anonymous unions.
  • Fixing conversion for strings containing hexadecimal escape sequences.
  • Increasing recursion limit from 10 to 100 to handle deeply nested expressions.
• Simplifying the main CIF source file and avoiding errors of its compilation with GCC 12.
• Adding new test cases and making the test framework more robust.

This release was done at the beginning of June.