Open Source C/C++ Truffle languages available?

[Chris Seaton]

That sounds like a great project!

I think everything that would have been useful to you from TruffleC will have been re-implemented in Sulong. For example how to use our high performance native function interface, how to mix managed/native memory, and so on.

TruffleC did have some interesting work to support ASTs that included constructs like ‘goto’. We can explain how that works to you if you need that later on.

Chris

> On 24 Jul 2016, at 15:53, Gerard Krol <gerard at gerardkrol.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hello Chris,
> 
> Thanks for your quick response. I'm interested in building a C++ like
> language using Truffle, that would support a "sensible" subset of C++. It
> would use garbage collection and provide memory safety though, as well as
> other things that in my opinion are missing from C++. The language is
> called "Cover" (for now).
> 
> I'm basing Cover on SimpleLanguage, and am currently using the Eclipse CDT
> C++ parser. Currently it is in the "hello world + loops" phase. If you want
> to follow along take a look at https://github.com/gerard-/cover .
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gerard
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Chris Seaton <chris.seaton at oracle.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Gerard,
>> 
>> The old C implementation was called TruffleC. It interpreted the C
>> language AST. Sulong interprets the LLVM IR instead. That’s not really a
>> huge difference in practice. LLVM IR is a bit like a linearised version of
>> the AST and doesn’t include much lowering or optimisation. TruffleC uses
>> the same clever hacks as Sulong.
>> 
>> JRuby's C extensions (which are still at an early stage) used to use
>> TruffleC, but they now use Sulong.
>> 
>> TruffleC isn’t open source, and there aren’t any plans that I’m aware of
>> to open source it. Sulong is open source already. If you were happy with
>> the TruffleC approach there’s not any reason that I know of that would mean
>> Sulong wouldn’t also be appropriate, so I see TruffleC as deprecated by
>> Sulong which is why there isn’t a great demand to open source it.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>>> On 24 Jul 2016, at 09:12, Gerard Krol <gerard at gerardkrol.nl> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I've recently learned about Tuffle/Graal. It seems great technology.
>>> 
>>> I'm interested in running C++ code on the JVM, without resorting to the
>>> (admittedly clever) Sulong hack. I've seen some presentations and read
>> some
>>> papers about a C implementation, but that one doesn't seem to be open
>>> source. The same goes for the C extensions for JRuby. Is that correct?
>>> 
>>> If so, what are the reasons for not open sourcing it? Any plans to do so
>> in
>>> the future?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Gerard
>> 
>>