lox-c

A compiler and bytecode vm for the programming language lox.

Quickstart

Prerequisites:

• A C99 compiler
• POSIX Make

$ make lox-release
$ ./lox-release run test/hello_world.lox
$ printf "(12 + 2) * 3" | ./lox-release run -
$ ./lox-release dump test/hello_world.lox

Development

Recommended setup

Additional prerequisites:

• GNU parallel (optional, only to run the tests)

# With Address Sanitizer:
$ make lox-debug
# Or without:
$ make lox-debug SANITIZER=""
$ ./lox-debug
# Test
$ ./test.sh

Docker

make docker

Major differences with the official implementation

• Strings are not interned

License

MIT