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Re: [Tinycc-devel] Use tcc to make embedded just-in-time compile/interpr
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Basile Starynkevitch |
Subject: |
Re: [Tinycc-devel] Use tcc to make embedded just-in-time compile/interpreter |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:24:43 +0100 |
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:01:32 +0100
Benoit Gschwind <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 17/12/2011 19:33, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:31:31 +0100
> > Benoit Gschwind <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I would like to create an embedded C interpreter/compiler.
[...]
> > Other have answered about libtcc.h, but why do you want the user to write
> > code in C
> > specifically (as opposed to some higher-level scripting language)?
>
> Why not? for performance, for lightness, for sport. Why use some new
> language when everything is ok with an existing good language?
I see one reason to avoid C as a scripting language: error handling. Most
scripting
language gives you a toplevel loop and return to it on error, this is not so
easily
possible in C (unless the C is generated by your language implementation).
A user which only gets a SIGSEGV on error may be frustrated.
Cheers.
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