Code Generation Frameworks?

What kind of data are you going to input into it? Something IDL like?

We wrote that in Perl. Our data descriptions can be simplified perl scripts (that use pre-defined functions), or XML. It's served us pretty well.

However, if possible, I would recommend against code generation. Using runtime data discovery and parsing is more flexible, and allows you to do more dynamic development.

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Original post by SiCrane What kind of data are you going to input into it? Something IDL like?

Doesn't matter... the intermediate format, if there is one, will be generated by a GUI tool, and we'll have full control over it.

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Original post by hplus0603 We wrote that in Perl. Our data descriptions can be simplified perl scripts (that use pre-defined functions), or XML. It's served us pretty well. However, if possible, I would recommend against code generation. Using runtime data discovery and parsing is more flexible, and allows you to do more dynamic development.

Our current system is data-driven, but we're looking to improve performance and memory efficiency, and want to support small mathematical functions inline without needing a complicated, slow, and yucky runtime function composition system. We've been considering a JIT-based solution, but wrangling a JIT engine to work on four different consoles would suck immense amounts of ass.

If there is something to be found then it can probably be found here:

http://codegeneration.net/

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Original post by Sneftel ... but in library form

boost MPL + Boost.Preprocessor comes to mind, if that is suitable i recommend getting this book don't worry its a short book (~270 pages excluding appendices) that will take about 1-2 days to read, shows you the techniques on how to write domain specific embedded languages (among other things) in C++ using those libraries.

I'm not sure if that is exactly what your looking for though, it sounds like you want something that is already/more declarative.

Template metaprogramming isn't really suitable for me, since I'll be generating C++ code not from other C++ code but from in-memory data structures or an intermediate format. Thanks for the links, though.

are you talking about creating C++ code on the fly, during runtime?
Or would runtime generated assembly work as well?

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Original post by daerid are you talking about creating C++ code on the fly, during runtime? Or would runtime generated assembly work as well?

nah he mentioned earlier he wants to generate C/C++ code not at runtime.