README.md

CPPPP

Experimental - Proof of concept

Description

Cpppp introduces "Quoted Initialisers" to C. Quoted initialisers are C initialisers that are executed before C compilation and the results substituted (similar to macros). For example:

int x = 4;
int y = 2;
int z = @|c_hs|"(+) %d %d"|x, y|;

Here we use the c_hs transformer to call Haskell's (+) function to add two C integers. Cpppp expands this initialiser out into a C foreign function interface call and a Haskell foreign function export.

This is not limited to FFI code generation, you can add your own code transformers! Simply implement the following data type:

data Transform = forall a . Transform
	{ _init :: IO a
	, _trns :: a -> String -> [Id] -> SrcLoc -> IO (a, Initializer)
	, _fin  :: a -> IO ()
	}

Using this, we can type check and perform code generate for SQL expressions, regex expressions, Auto Layout strings, etc. in C. Anything you might of used quasi-quotation for in Haskell.

Status

language-c-quote can not ingest macros yet, so it will not work for anything serious yet.

Dependencies

The following repos and branches are required to be cabal install-ed:

• git@github.com:maxpow4h/language-c-quote.git branch: quoted-init