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Brad Bell

Single Source for Multiple Target Languages

I am working on a Swig interface to Cppad. The goal in using a Swig is to
have a single source that supports as many target languages as possible.

The example / tests are written in M4 and translated to each of the
target languages for example / testing purposes; see
http://www.seanet.com/~bradbell/cppad_swig/xam.m4.htm
For example, see the heading Example on
http://www.seanet.com/~bradbell/cppad_swig/a_fun_jacobian.htm#Example
where there is a link for C++, Octave, Perl, and Python.

Is there some other approach to example / tests that is used by the Swig
community ?

One thing that I have had trouble with is handling exceptions in a target
language independent way. I know the %except directive
http://www.swig.org/Doc1.1/HTML/Exceptions.html
is intended for this purpose, but I was not able to figure out how to use
it in a target language independent way.

Perhaps there are examples of how to do this ?

I took the following approach to exceptions:
http://www.seanet.com/~bradbell/cppad_swig/error_message.htm
Note the Example heading and that it works in a language independent way.

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William S Fulton

Re: Single Source for Multiple Target Languages

On 20 January 2017 at 02:29, Brad Bell <[hidden email]> wrote:

I am working on a Swig interface to Cppad. The goal in using a Swig is to
have a single source that supports as many target languages as possible.

The example / tests are written in M4 and translated to each of the
target languages for example / testing purposes; see
http://www.seanet.com/~bradbell/cppad_swig/xam.m4.htm
For example, see the heading Example on
http://www.seanet.com/~bradbell/cppad_swig/a_fun_jacobian.htm#Example
where there is a link for C++, Octave, Perl, and Python.

Is there some other approach to example / tests that is used by the Swig
community ?

One thing that I have had trouble with is handling exceptions in a target
language independent way. I know the %except directive
http://www.swig.org/Doc1.1/HTML/Exceptions.html
is intended for this purpose, but I was not able to figure out how to use
it in a target language independent way.

You are looking at documentation for a rather ancient version of SWIG. Exceptions are covered in various places in the docs. http://www.swig.org/Doc3.0/Customization.html#Customization_exception and http://www.swig.org/Doc3.0/SWIGPlus.html#SWIGPlus_exception_specifications are probably the two most useful sections describing various ways that exceptions can be handled.

William

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Brad Bell

Re: Single Source for Multiple Target Languages

The problem with the solution below is that the C++ code depends on the target language. I would like to write one C++ exception handler that swig maps to the proper interface for each language. This is what the
    http://www.seanet.com/~bradbell/cppad_swig/error_message.htm
does. The corresponding source code can be found starting at
    error_message(const char* input_message)
in the file
    https://github.com/bradbell/cppad_swig/blob/master/lib/error.cpp

On 03/10/2017 05:09 PM, William S Fulton wrote:

... snip ...

One thing that I have had trouble with is handling exceptions in a target
language independent way. I know the %except directive
http://www.swig.org/Doc1.1/HTML/Exceptions.html
is intended for this purpose, but I was not able to figure out how to use
it in a target language independent way.

You are looking at documentation for a rather ancient version of SWIG. Exceptions are covered in various places in the docs. http://www.swig.org/Doc3.0/Customization.html#Customization_exception and http://www.swig.org/Doc3.0/SWIGPlus.html#SWIGPlus_exception_specifications are probably the two most useful sections describing various ways that exceptions can be handled.

William