ABI Cafe
Not sure if your compilers have matching ABIs? Then put them through the ultimate compatibility crucible and pair them up on a shift at The ABI Cafe! Find out if your one true pairing fastcalls for each other or are just another slowburn disaster. (Maid outfits optional but recommended.)
Quickstart
To run ABI Cafe, just checkout the repository and cargo run!
What Is This
ABI Cafe automates testing that two languages/compilers agree on their ABIs.
ABI Cafe is essentially an ABI fuzzer, which:
- Creates a header file describing an interface
- Generates source code for a user and implementation of that interface
- Builds and runs the resulting program
- Checks that both sides saw the same values
If they agree, great!
If they don't agree, even better, we just learned something! We then try to diagnose why they disagreed, and generate a minimized version that a human can inspect and report!
Now do this a bajillion times and suddenly we're learning a whole lot! Alternatively, you can hand-craft any type or function signature you're interested in, and explore its interoperability between different toolchains.
ABI Cafe is purely descriptive. It has no preconceived notion of what should work, and it doesn't trust any damn thing anyone says about it. We don't analyze assembly or metadata, and we'll gleefully create programs riddled with Undefined Behaviour. We're here to learn not lecture.
This design is based on a fundamental belief that ABIs exist only through sheer force of will. The spec if often "read GCC's source code", and damn if that ain't an error-prone process. Also GCC doesn't even know you exist, and you're only going to keep interoperating with them if you check and maintain your work. So here's a tool for checking and maintaining your work!