Hello, I tried sending the following to debian-devel but it bounced for some reason:
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Bug#325371: ITP: binfmtc -- a binfmt_misc hook for running C programs as scripts Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:43:40 -0400 From: Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Junichi Uekawa wrote: > I'm planning on uploading binfmtc to Debian. > It is a binfmt_misc hook that allows using > C source as if they were scripts. > > It invokes gcc and runs the resulting binary. > > I would be interested to know if there is any existing tool that > does something similar, and also if anyone finds use for > such system. I personally like using this since it allows > rapid testing, and C is the scripting language I feel most > comfortable with. There is CINT, a C/C++ interpreter. I think it was packaged for Debian at one time but was later removed as a result of an FTBFS bug on m68k that was never fixed. It's also a core component of the ROOT data analysis system. Here's upstream's web page: http://root.cern.ch/root/Cint.html The CINT license (at a quick glance, looks DFSG-free) http://root.cern.ch/root/Cint.phtml?readme (scroll down a bit) However I don't immediately see an obvious way to make CINT execute C code starting with #!/usr/local/bin/cint as if it were a script. (The problem is apparently that # doesn't mark the start of a comment in the C language...) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
