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binfmtc - binfmt_misc C scripting interface

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Introducing the binfmt_misc C scripting interface

"I love C". "I enjoy writing in C". "I don't feel well when I have
passed a day without coding a line of C". "My conversation with my
wife simply doesn't flow without the C language". "I want to write
everything in C, even the everyday scripting, but due to the steps
required for writing make files and other things, I tend to choose
interpreted languages". A good news for the C programmers suffering
from these symptoms. binfmtc is a hack to allow you to use the C
language for cases where script languages such as perl and shell were
the languages of choice.

Also included is a "real csh" as an example, allowing you to use the
C language style for executing everyday sysadmin work. Please
experience the real C shell, which has a slightly different tint to
the original C shell we've been used to for more than 10 years.

Screenshots

C assembly C++ real csh

Examples of execution in C, assembly, and C++. The last entry is the
one for real csh.

Usage

Simply add a magic keyword /*BINFMTC: compile-time options and add
execution permission to the C-script. Every time you invoke the
script, the compiler will compile and execute the program for you.

How to install

For sid add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list and do
apt-get update; apt-get install binfmtc.

deb http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/tmp/20050523 ./


Mechanics behind it

By registering magic through Linux binfmt_misc, binfmtc-interpreter
will be invoked every time a C script is invoked. binfmtc-interpreter
will parse the specified script file, and will invoke gcc with the
required options, and compile to a temporary binary, and invoke the
binary.

Future plans

Do you actually find it, ... useful?

  * [DEL:gcj support:DEL] 0.3 done
  * [DEL:g77 support:DEL] 0.5 done
  * [DEL:gpc support:DEL] 0.5 done
  * gnat support
  * gobjc support
  * chill support
  * mono/pnet c# support
  * [DEL:use binfmt-support:DEL] done

References

  * Downloads
  * tcc -run does a similar thing to binfmtc for C.
  * c repl implements a better c shell than realcsh.

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Junichi Uekawa

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