c-cdd

Frontend for C, concentrating on: generation from code; single-file analysis; modification; and emission (to C code).

Use-cases this is designed to support:

Generate/update free calling int cleanup_StructName(struct StructName*) functions, e.g.:
- struct Foo { struct Bar *bar;}; struct Bar { int a; }; will generate:
- int cleanup_Bar(struct Bar*); &
- int cleanup_Foo(struct Foo*); (which internally will call cleanup_Bar)
With fmt of JSON, INI, YAML, TOML, &etc.:
- Generate/update parsers from const char* to struct: const int StructName_<fmt>_parse(struct StructName*, const char*) function;
- Generate/update emitters from struct to char*: const int StructName_<fmt>_emit(const struct StructName*, char*) function;
Generate Google Cloud client library for C (with Google Cloud API Discovery Service as input);
Generate arbitrary C client libraries (with OpenAPI as input);
Generating #pragma for every function to expose them for calling from, e.g., assembly

Design

This C compiler has a very unusual design, the macro and C language are treated as one. The foci are:

location start/end of function, struct, and feature macros (e.g., #ifdef JSON_EMIT then #endif /* JSON_EMIT */);
struct fields.

…which enable a number of use-cases to be simply developed, e.g., see the list above.

Drawbacks

Macros aren't evaluated, which means a simple #define LBRACE { will break cdd-c.
Like m4, CMake, and other tools; cdd-c must be run before your code is built.

Development guide

Install: CMake ; C compiler toolchain ; git. Then:

$ git clone "https://github.com/offscale/vcpkg" -b "project0"
# Windows:
$ vcpkg\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
# Non-Windows:
$ ./vcpkg/bootstrap-vcpkg.sh
# Both Windows and non-Windows:
$ git clone "https://github.com/SamuelMarks/cdd-c" && cd "cdd-c"  # Or your fork of this repo
# Windows
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Debug" -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="..\vcpkg\scripts\buildsystems\vcpkg.cmake" -S . -B "build"
# Non-Windows
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE='Debug' -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE='../vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake' -S . -B 'build'
# Both Windows and non-Windows:
$ cmake --build "build"
# Test
$ cd "build" && ctest -C "Debug" --verbose

License

Licensed under either of

Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Time0o / cdd-c