Re: Question about code generation

[Gerd Möllmann]

Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 10 2024, Gerd Möllmann wrote:
>
>>> But I guess I'm misunderstanding what you are asking about.
>>
>> I was thinking of (making my life easier and) generating the fix_
>> functions in igc.c, as an example, from knowledge that a C parser has
>> which members are in a given struct, what's their type, Lisp_Object,
>> pointer to something interesting, ...
>>
>> Together with meta infos passed to a code generator this could be used
>> for all sorts of things, I guess.
>
> Would be nice to write things like:
>
> struct foo {
>    void* bar [[emacs::igc_fix_obj]];
> }

Yeah, exactly!

>
> and then run a gcc or clang plugin over it and generate the needed code.
>
> Can libgccjit be used to parse C code and could we write the plugin in
> Emacs Lisp?  That would be fun.