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From: mikes@ingres.com (Mike Schilling)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: why arent there any c-interpreter ?
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.001400.15059@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Date: 10 Dec 90 00:14:00 GMT
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In article <3303@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> admerlev@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Arnd Merlevede ) writes:
>i would like to know why there aren't any c-interprters out there.
>it would be nice to test small pieces of code interactively...

Saber C is an interpretive environment for debugging C programs.  I've seen
an evaluation copy running on Sun-4s under X.  It allows
some of the application you're testing to be linked in as object code, while
the rest is run interpretively.  It's very thorough in testing for invalid
references to heap storage, array boundary checking, etc.  I found it
very impressive.  (I have no connection with the vendor.)
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