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This is a wrapper library for libgccjit using 7.4's FFI.

Basically, it exposes a "nice" interface in PHP for building JITs with GCC.

Example (in C, from https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/JIT):

gcc_jit_type *void_type = gcc_jit_context_get_type (ctxt, GCC_JIT_TYPE_VOID);
gcc_jit_type *const_char_ptr_type = gcc_jit_context_get_type (ctxt, GCC_JIT_TYPE_CONST_CHAR_PTR);
gcc_jit_param *param_name =
 gcc_jit_context_new_param (ctxt, NULL, const_char_ptr_type, "name");
gcc_jit_function *func =
 gcc_jit_context_new_function (ctxt, NULL,
 GCC_JIT_FUNCTION_EXPORTED,
 void_type,
 "some_fn",
 1, &param_name,
 0);

Would become:

$void_type = gcc_jit_context_get_type($ctxt, GCC_JIT_TYPE_VOID);
$const_char_ptr_type = gcc_jit_context_get_type($ctxt, GCC_JIT_TYPE_CONST_CHAR_PTR);
$param_name = gcc_jit_context_new_param($ctxt, null, $const_char_ptr_type, "name");
$func = gcc_jit_context_new_function(
 $ctxt, 
 null,
 GCC_JIT_FUNCTION_EXPORTED,
 $void_type,
 "some_fn",
 1,
 gcc_jit_param_ptr_ptr::fromArray($param_name),
 0
);

It aims to be a simple, and type safe implementation in PHP.