Data-Level Interoperability (2000)
| Venue: | Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science |
| Citations: | 5 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Fisher00data-levelinteroperability,
author = {Kathleen Fisher and Riccardo Pucella and John Reppy},
title = {Data-Level Interoperability},
booktitle = {Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science},
year = {2000},
pages = {2001}
}
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Abstract
Practical implementations of high-level languages must provide access to libraries and system services that have APIs specified in a low-level language (usually C). Our approach to supporting foreign interfaces in the MOBY compiler is based on a mechanism for data-level interoperability, which allows MOBY code to manipulate C data representations directly. Datalevel interoperability is important when dealing with large external data sets or data that is in a fixed format. It also serves as the foundation for a wide range of different foreign-interface policies. We describe tools that implement three such policies: Charon, which embeds C types directly into MOBY, moby-idl, which provides an IDL-based embedding, and an API miner, which enables application-specific embeddings. The benefits of our approach stem from the design of our compiler and do not rely on properties of the MOBY language. 1 Introduction High-level languages, such as most functional and object-oriented langu...
