* Re: [Announce] GCCSharp - libgccjit bindings for C#
2015-01-01 0:00 ` David Malcolm
@ 2015-01-01 0:00 ` Mukul Sabharwal
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mukul Sabharwal @ 2015-01-01 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Malcolm; +Cc: jit
I did not know libgccjit had a C++ API as well, I suppose I can model
the C# API to look like that.
Thanks for the feedback, I agree it'll make the API less-verbose.
For folks who do like the verbosity, I'll keep the C-ish API around,
but the OOP approach will make it cleaner.
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 8:09 AM, David Malcolm <dmalcolm@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 12:29 -0700, Mukul Sabharwal wrote:
>> I'd like to introduce GCCSharp [ http://github.com/mjsabby/GCCSharp ]
>> - libgccjit bindings for C# that are are modeled after the C Bindings,
>> but improve type-safety by strongly typing the different pointers used
>> (i.e. gcc_jit_context* is different from gcc_jit_result*, etc.); this
>> also improves productivity in a C# IDE.
>>
>> My primary use case for libgccjit is actually not using it is as JIT
>> but as an AOT for a toy-but-turing-complete language, hence the
>> project name GCCSharp which does not include the term JIT.
>>
>> The bindings have only been tested on Linux (which is where I need
>> this for my language port), I suppose for completeness I will work on
>> testing this on Windows, but that will likely require a source build
>> of GCC that I haven't gotten to yet.
>>
>> Feedback and patches are welcome.
>
> Hi Mukul; thanks for working on this!
>
> I've added a link to your project to the wiki page at:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/JIT
>
> On the subject of feedback, libgccjit's C API is rather verbose, but in
> an object-oriented language it's possible to greatly simplify the client
> code by using methods and namespaces.
>
> (Caveat: I have zero C# experience, and am relying on the syntax
> similarity with Java, with which I have close-to-but-not-zero
> experience)
>
> So rather than e.g.
> GCCJITTypeRef voidType = GCC.JITContextGetType(ctxt,
> GCC_JIT_TYPES.GCC_JIT_TYPE_VOID);
>
> would it be possible to have something like:
>
> TypeRef voidType = ctxt.GetType(TYPES.VOID);
>
> where "TypeRef" would be a namespaced-lookup of
>
> "GCCSharp.TypeRef"
>
> and "TYPES" would be (after namespace lookup) be "GCCSharp.TYPES", with
> the GetType being a method of the
> GCCSharp.Context class?
>
> I did something like this for the C++ bindings, and for the Python
> bindings. The Python bindings do it by using two layers: a low-level
> layer that binds the C API into the Python world, and then a
> higher-level layer that adds an object-oriented approach to the API.
>
> I hope that this would still work well within IDEs, and I think it looks
> more elegant.
>
> Hope this is constructive (and please forgive me if I'm missing
> something)
>
> Dave
>
>
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* Re: [Announce] GCCSharp - libgccjit bindings for C#
2015-01-01 0:00 [Announce] GCCSharp - libgccjit bindings for C# Mukul Sabharwal
@ 2015-01-01 0:00 ` David Malcolm
2015-01-01 0:00 ` Mukul Sabharwal
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Malcolm @ 2015-01-01 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mukul Sabharwal; +Cc: jit
On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 12:29 -0700, Mukul Sabharwal wrote:
> I'd like to introduce GCCSharp [ http://github.com/mjsabby/GCCSharp ]
> - libgccjit bindings for C# that are are modeled after the C Bindings,
> but improve type-safety by strongly typing the different pointers used
> (i.e. gcc_jit_context* is different from gcc_jit_result*, etc.); this
> also improves productivity in a C# IDE.
>
> My primary use case for libgccjit is actually not using it is as JIT
> but as an AOT for a toy-but-turing-complete language, hence the
> project name GCCSharp which does not include the term JIT.
>
> The bindings have only been tested on Linux (which is where I need
> this for my language port), I suppose for completeness I will work on
> testing this on Windows, but that will likely require a source build
> of GCC that I haven't gotten to yet.
>
> Feedback and patches are welcome.
Hi Mukul; thanks for working on this!
I've added a link to your project to the wiki page at:
https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/JIT
On the subject of feedback, libgccjit's C API is rather verbose, but in
an object-oriented language it's possible to greatly simplify the client
code by using methods and namespaces.
(Caveat: I have zero C# experience, and am relying on the syntax
similarity with Java, with which I have close-to-but-not-zero
experience)
So rather than e.g.
GCCJITTypeRef voidType = GCC.JITContextGetType(ctxt,
GCC_JIT_TYPES.GCC_JIT_TYPE_VOID);
would it be possible to have something like:
TypeRef voidType = ctxt.GetType(TYPES.VOID);
where "TypeRef" would be a namespaced-lookup of
"GCCSharp.TypeRef"
and "TYPES" would be (after namespace lookup) be "GCCSharp.TYPES", with
the GetType being a method of the
GCCSharp.Context class?
I did something like this for the C++ bindings, and for the Python
bindings. The Python bindings do it by using two layers: a low-level
layer that binds the C API into the Python world, and then a
higher-level layer that adds an object-oriented approach to the API.
I hope that this would still work well within IDEs, and I think it looks
more elegant.
Hope this is constructive (and please forgive me if I'm missing
something)
Dave
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* [Announce] GCCSharp - libgccjit bindings for C#
@ 2015-01-01 0:00 Mukul Sabharwal
2015-01-01 0:00 ` David Malcolm
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mukul Sabharwal @ 2015-01-01 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jit
I'd like to introduce GCCSharp [ http://github.com/mjsabby/GCCSharp ]
- libgccjit bindings for C# that are are modeled after the C Bindings,
but improve type-safety by strongly typing the different pointers used
(i.e. gcc_jit_context* is different from gcc_jit_result*, etc.); this
also improves productivity in a C# IDE.
My primary use case for libgccjit is actually not using it is as JIT
but as an AOT for a toy-but-turing-complete language, hence the
project name GCCSharp which does not include the term JIT.
The bindings have only been tested on Linux (which is where I need
this for my language port), I suppose for completeness I will work on
testing this on Windows, but that will likely require a source build
of GCC that I haven't gotten to yet.
Feedback and patches are welcome.
Mukul
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