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This is a preliminary implementation of a clang JIT/interpreter Objective-C runtime bridge. The purpose is to create a functioning Objective-C (and therefore Eero) interpreter. This, in turn, could at some point be used with an interactive interpreter, such as cling or ccons.

Clang's clang-interpreter example has been modified here to demonstrate this project's functionality. With this version, the following is possible:

$ clang-interpreter helloworld.m
$ 2012-02-12 13:24:09.982 clang-interpreter[65176:903] Hello world!

This also works with GUI source (see example gui.m).

Contributions welcome!

Notes

• Based on llvm/clang trunk
• Mostly tested on OS X, but designed to work with any popular Objective-C runtime
• Requires a functioning host machine objective-c runtime
• Minimally tested with GNUStep runtime on Linux

Limitations

• Must currently be built with assertions off, since not all llvm types are properly used
• Exceptions not fully working
• Still very rough -- needs proper option switch (e.g. "-jit-runtime"), lots of cleanup, testing, etc..