Is there a GCC C API (or some other C API) that I can use within a C program to compile other C programs? Something more programmatic than exec("gcc") and having to parse text intended for man (not machines) (eg. for debugging).
More specifically, the idea is to have a C program modify its C source code at run-time and then replace its own running instance (or parts of it; say it's made of multiple dynamic libraries that can be reloaded) with the newly compiled version of itself.