Re: Dynamic FFI vs Static FFI (was Re: About Guile crypto support)

2013-02-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > It seems to me that the dynamic FFI performs, at run time, the same jobs > that a C compiler performs at compile time. If at some point we add > support for accessing preprocessor macros and type definitions (which > seems important), then we'll need the header files as

Re: Dynamic FFI vs Static FFI (was Re: About Guile crypto support)

2013-02-12 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Mark H Weaver skribis: > >> At some point, it might make sense to create a more static FFI that >> works more like a C compiler does, splitting the job into compile-time >> and run-time phases. This static FFI would be strictly less powerful >> than the d

Re: Dynamic FFI vs Static FFI (was Re: About Guile crypto support)

2013-02-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Mark H Weaver skribis: >> >>> At some point, it might make sense to create a more static FFI that >>> works more like a C compiler does, splitting the job into compile-time >>> and run-time phases. This static FFI would be str