binfmtc – binfmt_misc C scripting interface

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

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?

• gcj support 0.3 done
• g77 support 0.5 done
• gpc support 0.5 done
• gnat support
• gobjc support
• chill support
• mono/pnet c# support
• use binfmt-support done

References

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