AspectC

AspectC is a simple aspect-oriented extension to C, intended tosupport operating systems and embedded systems programming. We arecurrently using it everday in oura-kernelproject, and we hope to make it publically available soon.

Our approach to developing AspectC has been to quickly get an initiallanguage running, and start using it in a real system; and then go onto further refine the language and implementation based on ourexperience using it. The initial design of AspectC was taken directlyfrom the non-object oriented subset of AspectJ. The language hasevolved from that point, because of the important differences betweenC and the non-OO subset of Java.

People

Current

• Gregor Kiczales
• Yvonne Coady

Alumni

• Greg Smolyn

Recent Publications

Yvonne Coady, Gregor Kiczales, Mike Feeley and Greg Smolyn."Using AspectC to Improve the Modularity of Path-Specific Customization in Operating System Code",FSE 2001.