Hello everybody - I'm looking into hooking the Tiny C Compiler into Perl. Among other things, it can JIT-compile a string of C code and let you get a function pointer (or a pointer to any other structure of the compiled code that is globally scoped) that you can subsequently call from your original C program. I would like to try to use this to build Perl CVs/XSUBs, but I see no interface for creating an XSUB that is not installed into a package.
The easy work around is to have a designated package into which all such xsubs are installed and simply use newxs (see http://perldoc.perl.org/perlembed.html). The name given to the Perl-side function would be composed from a hashing algorithm of some sort to avoid collisions. Still, I would really like to create simple function references without having to create the entry in the package. Thoughts? Wisdom? David P.S. TCC compiles for i686 and ARM hardware. It can create executables for Windows and Linux (with some work on porting it to Mac OSX). I realize this is a limited set of platforms, but I suspect a lot of users would still be able to benefit from it and I would like to get this working. Heck, if this is successful, it may draw enough developers into the TCC project to get it working on other hardware. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
