FoxyC

Adds class-oriented syntaxis to C, by using macro's only.

This project is mostly a hack to show what can be achieved using the C define structure in relation to the syntax.

Requirements

Unfortunately, to be able to seamlessly extend structs, we require Microsoft flavored anonymous struct. Thus, we require the flags -fms-extensions -Wno-microsoft. Except for requiring anonymous structs, we aim to write standard C.

Examples

Node.h

foxy(
    class (Node)
    {
        Node* root;
        Node* left;
        Node* right;
        Object value;
    }
)

foxy(
     class(RBNode extends Node)
     {
         enum{RED, BLACK} color;
     }
)

Node.c

foxy(
    implementation(Node)
    {

    }
)

foxy(
    implementation(RBNode)
    {

    }
)

main.c

int main(int argc, const char * argv[]){
     Node* node = new_RBNode();//Currently new_RBNode is not yet implemented
     //Use node as you would normally use a struct...

     //Reflection class
     Class* class = node->class;//Equivalent to getClass(RBNode)

     //Copy the node
     Node* copy = malloc(class->size);
     memcpy(copy, node, class->size);

     //Outputs "Type of node = 'RBNode'"
     printf("Type of node = '%s'\n", class->name);

     //Outputs "Parent type of node = 'Node', grandparent = 'Object'"
     printf("Parent type of node = '%s', grandparent = '%s'\n",
         class->super->name,
         class->super->super->name);
}