A Foreign Function Interface Generator for occam-pi

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A Foreign Function Interface Generator for occam-pi (2005)

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by Damian J. Dimmich , Christan L. Jacobsen

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@MISC{Dimmich05aforeign,
    author = {Damian J. Dimmich and Christan L. Jacobsen},
    title = {A Foreign Function Interface Generator for occam-pi},
    year = {2005}
}

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Abstract

occam-pi is a programming language based on the CSP process algebra and the pi-calculus, and has a powerful syntax for expressing concurrency. occam-pi does not however, come with interfaces to a broad range of standard libraries (such as those used for graphics or mathematics). Programmers wishing to use these must write their own wrappers using occam-pi's foreign function interface, which can be tedious and time consuming. SWIG offers automatic generation of wrappers for libraries written in C and C++, allowing access to these for the target languages supported by SWIG. This paper describes the occam-pi module for SWIG, which will allow automatic wrapper generation for occam-pi, and will ensure that occam-pi's library base can be grown in a quick and efficient manner. Access to database, graphics and hardware interfacing libraries can all be provided with relative ease when using SWIG to automate the bulk of the work.

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foreign function interface generator broad range target language automatic wrapper generation time consuming foreign function interface efficient manner automatic generation standard library library base csp process algebra relative ease powerful syntax occam-pi module

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