Is there a REPL for C programming? [closed]
I am on osx. I found this http://neugierig.org/software/c-repl/ but the links on that page for code seem to be broken.
Solution 1:
Just found the IGCC (Interactive GCC) REPL. I like it.
Example:
./igcc
g++> int a = 1, b = 2;
g++> printf("%d\n", a + b);
3
g++>
And it gives you compile errors like this:
g++> c = 3;
[Compile error - type .e to see it.]
g++> .e
<stdin>:14:1: error: use of undeclared identifier 'c'
c = 3;
^
(SF download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/igcc/files/)
Solution 2:
gdb makes a pretty good REPL. You can't define new functions there, but you can evaluate expressions (including those with side effects).
Solution 3:
Seems like the code of c-repl can now be found at a Github repository. It seems to be a dead project, though (last commit was 3 years ago), so I'd suggest looking into alternatives as well:
- CINT Archived old official page from web.archive.org or "Masaharu Goto" CINT page
- ccons Github or code.google
- Cling, successor of CINT, but only supports C++ (which might or might not be a problem, depending on what features you need)