Leopold Toetsch wrote:
On Oct 28, 2005, at 22:22, Nick Glencross wrote:
Guys,
As mentioned on the list yesterday I started evaluating ffcall as a
way of providing NCI functionality.
http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-ffcall.html
I've downloaded it and had a short look into sources. The list of
supported platforms is quite impressive. OTOH it looks a bit under
documented to me.
The page that I've linked to is a bit bland, but the manual pages for
the 4 routines are very thorough. It's being able to create the closures
which made this library stand out, as that would allow us to create
callbacks with any library. Still haven't looked under the hood to see
how on earth that's possible.
I've now got a working POC for function calls, and although callbacks
don't work yet, they're not far off. All but 11 of the 59 NCI tests
pass, and those that don't work exercise callbacks or reading back
values from types for which I haven't done yet.
That's a lot for this early stage. Good work.
I was hoping to have shiny callbacks too, but something bad was
happening with the arguments being passed around, but I've got to the
bottom of that nasty.
As far as PIR/PASM code, the interface is unchanged, although I would
like to suggest that at some point the newclass signature include the
return type in common with other opcodes, as hopefully we can support
this.
You are talking about new_callback ?
Yes, thought one thing, typed another,
Nick
