1. Updates on Eu 4.2 and Libffi?
- Posted by Icy_Viking in June
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Hello all,
I'm just wondering how development on Euphoria 4.2 is going? Also, the development of LibFFI. I read that Greg was planning on adding members to it. This would be very helpful with structs that have tons of members in them. Hope all is well.
2. Re: Updates on Eu 4.2 and Libffi?
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) in June
- 371 views
I'm just wondering how development on Euphoria 4.2 is going? Also, the development of LibFFI. I read that Greg was planning on adding members to it. This would be very helpful with structs that have tons of members in them. Hope all is well.
I was just reviewing my progress last night. I'd say I'm about 40-50% done? It's slow going because I have to be more delicate when grafting things onto the C backend to avoid breaking existing features.
- [x] Replace existing C type IDs (C_INT, etc.)
- [x] Add more C type IDs like C_UINT32
- [x] Add C define_c_struct/union/type()
- [x] Add C type/member name registration (needs some work)
- [x] New backend for define_c_func/proc() using ffi_prep_cif()
- [ ] Add peek/poke_struct() and peek/poke_member()
- [ ] New backend for c_func/proc() using ffi_call() (started but incomplete)
- [ ] New backend for call_back() using ffi_prep_closure_loc()
- [ ] Unit tests for proper replacement of std/dll.e
- [ ] Unit tests for proper operation of C struct/union, etc.
- [ ] Unit tests for new features like automatic strings, returning structs, etc.
The unit tests are partially completed. I'm adding to them incrementally as I add each feature. Once I have something that is usable I will push it up to the repo.
-Greg
3. Re: Updates on Eu 4.2 and Libffi?
- Posted by Icy_Viking in June
- 357 views
I'm just wondering how development on Euphoria 4.2 is going? Also, the development of LibFFI. I read that Greg was planning on adding members to it. This would be very helpful with structs that have tons of members in them. Hope all is well.
I was just reviewing my progress last night. I'd say I'm about 40-50% done? It's slow going because I have to be more delicate when grafting things onto the C backend to avoid breaking existing features.
- [x] Replace existing C type IDs (C_INT, etc.)
- [x] Add more C type IDs like C_UINT32
- [x] Add C define_c_struct/union/type()
- [x] Add C type/member name registration (needs some work)
- [x] New backend for define_c_func/proc() using ffi_prep_cif()
- [ ] Add peek/poke_struct() and peek/poke_member()
- [ ] New backend for c_func/proc() using ffi_call() (started but incomplete)
- [ ] New backend for call_back() using ffi_prep_closure_loc()
- [ ] Unit tests for proper replacement of std/dll.e
- [ ] Unit tests for proper operation of C struct/union, etc.
- [ ] Unit tests for new features like automatic strings, returning structs, etc.
The unit tests are partially completed. I'm adding to them incrementally as I add each feature. Once I have something that is usable I will push it up to the repo.
-Greg
Sounds good, Greg!
