Re: RFC 334 (v1) I'm {STILL} trying to understand this...

2000-10-13 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:24:23PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > C's vararg handling sucks in many sublime and profound ways. It does, > > though, work. If we declare in advance that all C-visible perl functions > > have an official parameter list of

Re: RFC 334 (v1) Perl should allow specially attributed subs to be called as C functions

2000-10-13 Thread David L. Nicol
Dan Sugalski wrote: > If there's no hit, I'd love to have all perl functions callable from > outside. I'm not sure that'll be the case, though I'm all for it... With the 334 infrastructure, the -o option to generate a linkable object from a perl program/library (RFC 121) will be most do-able: "s

Re: RFC 334 (v1) Perl should allow specially attributed subs to be called as C functions

2000-10-13 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:26 PM 10/13/00 +, David L. Nicol wrote: >Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > If there's no hit, I'd love to have all perl functions callable from > > outside. I'm not sure that'll be the case, though I'm all for it... > >With the 334 infrastructure, the -o option to generate a linkable object >fro

Re: RFC 334 (v1) I'm {STILL} trying to understand this...

2000-10-13 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:16 AM 10/13/00 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:24:23PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > C's vararg handling sucks in many sublime and profound ways. It does, > > > though, work. If we declare in advance that all C-visi

Re: RFC 334 (v1) I'm {STILL} trying to understand this...

2000-10-13 Thread David L. Nicol
Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At 08:57 PM 10/12/00 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:43:07PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > Doing this also means someone writing an app with an embedded perl > > > interpreter can call into perl code the same way as they call into any C > > > li