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Cyclone

Cyclone. A Very Short Introduction Dan Grossman Cornell University Computer Science. Cyclone in One Slide. A safe, convenient, and modern language/compiler at the C level of abstraction Safe: Memory safety, abstract types, no core dumps

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Cyclone

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  1. Cyclone A Very Short Introduction Dan Grossman Cornell University Computer Science Cyclone – Very Short Introduction, June 2001

  2. Cyclone in One Slide A safe, convenient, and modern language/compiler at the C level of abstraction • Safe: Memory safety, abstract types, no core dumps • C-level: User-controlled data representation, easy inter-operability, resource-management control • Convenient: “looks like C, acts like C”, but may need more type annotations • Modern: discriminated unions, pattern-matching, exceptions, polymorphism, advanced type system, … Cyclone – Very Short Introduction, June 2001

  3. Why Bother? • Safety-critical systems that must control data representation • e.g. low-level plug-ins • Performance tuning without throwing away the prototype • Exploit massive infrastructure and knowledge-base of C Cyclone – Very Short Introduction, June 2001

  4. `a swap(`a @{2}`r x) { `a t = x[0]; x[0] = x[1]; x[1] = t; return x[0]; } void * swap(void **x) { void * t = x[0]; x[0] = x[1]; x[1] = t; return x[0]; } Silly Example • Compiler needs info to check safety of body and call sites • Call sites do not change ! Cyclone – Very Short Introduction, June 2001

  5. Status • Bootstrapped compiler (approx. 1 minute) • Libraries • Documentation (more in progress) • Easy to install and build (gcc, gnumake, a couple environment variables) • URL announcement soon, meanwhile mail us: • Greg Morrisett (jgm@cs.cornell.edu) • Trevor Jim (trevor@research.att.com) • Dan Grossman (danieljg@cs.cornell.edu) Cyclone – Very Short Introduction, June 2001

  6. Yeah, We Do That… (With Caveats) pointer arithmetic, unions, varargs, nested structs, address of stack variables, function pointers, polymorphism, casts to supertypes, declaration w/o initialization, type inference, array-bounds checks, extensible datatypes, namespace control, link-compatibility checking, … What do you want to see? (We’ll write code) Cyclone – Very Short Introduction, June 2001

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