On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:55 PM, Alexander Bertram
<a...@bedatadriven.com> wrote:
> You can basically tell the compiler to map a C struct to a given java class,
> for example, mapping CRuby's VALUE to org.jruby.RubyBasicObject and import
>
> GimpleCompiler compiler = new GimpleCompiler();
> compiler.addRecordClass("__VALUE", RubyBasicObject.class);
> compiler.addMethod("TYPE", CRuby.class, "TYPE");
>
> You can then define:
>
> class CRuby {
> public static int TYPE(RubyBasicObject obj) {
> if(obj instance of RubyBoolean) return 1;
> if(obj instance of RubyHash) return 2;
> // etc...
> }
> }
Very nice! I'm eager to give this a try with a simple extension and
see how it feels.
> We monkey with the GNU R header files to make replace macros with function
> declarations so they can mapped to JVM methods.
Yeah we'd turn the weird ones into functions bound to JRuby operations too.
I have been in transit all day so I did not get to read much... how
does one get this gcc plugin installed? RubyGems are built when
installed, so we'd need to be able to hook into gcc at that point.
- Charlie
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