Re: Casual pidgin hacking

To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Casual pidgin hacking
From: Rob Myers <robm@tdv.com>
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 06:30:02 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: The Digital Village
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Reply-To: robm@tdv.com
Xref: traf.lcs.mit.edu comp.lang.dylan:11953

Nolan Darilek wrote:

> I'm a bit confused about how this works with pointers, though. I
> understand that int * is <C-int*>; does that also hold true in the FFI
> description, allowing you to use C-int*? Or is there more to it than
> that?

How do you mean in the FFI description? In the Dylan file or in the
generated C code?

> I also have one final question about FFI. Was there an implementation
> of the C-FFI library in the old 1.2 Harlequi distribution? If so, is
> it available under an open license?

FFi support requires compiler internals, which fall under trade
secrets/competitive advantage. Examples of FFI code shouldn't, so if
there aren't any in the Fun-Dev sources, maybe you could ask Functional
Objects.

- Rob.

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Casual pidgin hacking

From: Nolan Darilek <nolan@ethereal.dhis.org>