Is there a REPL for C programming?

c read-eval-print-loop
Surya picture Surya · May 26, 2012 · Viewed 23.1k times · Source

I am on osx. I found this http://neugierig.org/software/c-repl/ but the links on that page for code seem to be broken.

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gcbenison picture gcbenison · May 26, 2012

gdb makes a pretty good REPL. You can't define new functions there, but you can evaluate expressions (including those with side effects).

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