Re: Preliminary libffi progress

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ghaberek said...
Icy_Viking said...

Is there a link where we can see the code to libffi.e so far?

I need to clean it up a bit and then I'll push it to GitHub and share the link. Keep in mind that this is a temporary approach and ultimately libffi would be compiled into the backend and then exposed using machine_func().

Edit: putting together some rough documentation, I came up with this feature comparison table:

Feature std/dll.e std/ffi.e
Define C variables YES YES
Define C functions YES YES
Define machine functions YES YES
STDCALL convention YES YES
CDECL convention YES YES
FASTCALL convention NO YES
PASCAL convention NO YES
THISCALL convention NO YES
Pass structures by value NO YES
Receive structures by value NO YES
Variable-length call-backs NO YES
Floating-point call-backs NO YES

-Greg

This is looking great so far Greg, even if its in the early stages. I think this will really help in wrapping libraries. Making it much easier to wrap libraries and not have to make shim libraries or declaring structs as separate entities.

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