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Adding Reflection to C (davidpriver.com)
15 points by telotortium 21 days ago
4 comments
uecker 21 days ago
Here is my proposal with a lot of similarities: https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n3212.pdf
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cozzyd 21 days ago
BTF or DWARF info in principle contain the information needed, though working with them is cumbersome...
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tliltocatl 21 days ago
Been there… Pendantic nitpick: it's more akin to introspection, reflection would be self-modifying code.
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teo_zero 21 days ago
Nice. But you've just invented Zig!
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accelbred 20 days ago
C with Zig's comptime is compelling though. Zig doesnt allow you to access all the features your C compiler does, and puts you in the LLVM ecosystem. I've been working on something similar; extending C with both Zig/C++ inspired reflection and linear types, with a compiler that compiles to a subset of C to allow you to leverage GCC and all its extenstions.
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