[info-mcl] ? cffi

[james anderson]

there are two sources.

if you go to ftp.clozure.com, you will find the 5.2 release and a  
copy of the documentation for 4.0.
i know of no revised documentation for 5.2. other than that, there is  
always the source.
i believe 5.2 has a very different calling mechanism then 4.0, as it  
uses a different os x facility to manage foreign libraries.

the biggest '?' is turning off the gc for the dynamic extent of any  
foreign calls which pass lisp data. i do not know if that is possible  
in mcl, but it could be faked by moving the data to/from temporary  
external storage just to get it working.
two little question marks are the data type size calculations and the  
call-back protocol.
since the source is there, there's nothing stopping me from adapting  
the clozure-specific code to work in mcl.
i was just hoping to avoid having to wrap my head around those bits.


On 2010-09-22, at 04:45 , Chun Tian (binghe) wrote:

> Never know how to do FFI in Digitool MCL ... Where can I find some  
> API documents?
>
> --binghe
>
> 在 2010-9-22，05:36， james anderson 写道：
>
>> good morning;
>>
>> has anyone ported cffi to mcl?
>>
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