Brainfuck JIT compiler for .NET

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Quick links

• Abstract
• Language
• Usage
• Develop
  • Main source
    • Brainfuck.Core
    • Brainfuck.Compiler
    • Brainfuck.Application
  • Test source
    • Brainfuck.Const
    • Brainfuck.Tests
    • Brainfuck.Bench

Abstract

A pure C# brainfuck interpreter depending only on the .NET runtime.

This project is a CLI utility and modular library which parses brainfuck into custom intermediate representation, optimizes it and executes it via tree walking interpreter or through JIT compiled CIL code. See the spec for details.

Language

Brainfuck syntax and semantics are described here. By default (which is what the CLI uses), the brainfuck program is provided with 30,000 zero-initialized 8-bit cells with cursor pointing to the leftmost one.

No effort is made to protect against denial of service attaks in the default implementation of instructions, parsers, optimization passes and compilers. This is NOT to be considered a thrusted runtime environment. However, you may implement more hardened components yourself and plug them into the provided infrastructure.

Usage

This project depends on .NET SDK version 10. See below for provided assemblies. The CLI application is packaged in a self-contained Nix file, which you may use via the brainfuck attribute. To build and run the package, run:

nix build .
result/bin/bfi --help

Or to run directly:

nix run . -- --version

The library packages can be included via standard project references. No packages are currently uploaded to a central registry. All options for the CLI are documented via the --help flag. The code directory contains example brainfuck programs.

Develop

It may be enlightening to browse the source code and the provided doc comments.

Main source

Brainfuck.Core

Contains common building blocks for brainfuck-like language. It provides common interfaces for compilation pipeline stages and instructions, with Builtin containing instructions for most common brainfuck patterns. Look here for common utilities, but no parser or transformation implementation. The only builtin evaluation method is delegating to insturuction Invoke implementation.

Brainfuck.Compiler

The brainfuck implementation itself, built on top of primitives from Brainfuck.Core. Provides all pipeline stages needed to process a brainfuck program, includes optimization passes for common idioms and implements a compiler into expression trees.

Brainfuck.Application

A thin executable wrapper around Brainfuck.Compiler package.

Test source

Brainfuck.Const

Helper package containing reference brainfuck code and example mandelbrot output. Uses embedded resources into assembly.

Brainfuck.Tests

Tests via xUnit framework. Beware of shared mutable state, such as with parsers or IO implementations.

Brainfuck.Bench

Benchmarks using BenchmarkDotNet for the Brainfuck.Compiler implementation.