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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: jerry.james@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: DSO-style FFI
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:50:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pprfv8x4.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzjqj220k.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:35:44 -0400")

On Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:35:44 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: 

SM> [ Hi Jerry.  We're interested in adding support for dynamically loading
SM>   C code into Emacs, so I added you on the Cc, hoping you might be able
SM>   to give us some pointers to the XEmacs code, and maybe also some
SM>   guidance of things to watch out for.  ]

>> I have no idea how that would work.  Is there an example?

SM> As mentioned, there's the XEmacs implementation as an example.

Is 10-year-old glue code still the state of the art?  Or should I be
using libffi and libltdl as Tom suggested?  Or something else?

Ted



      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-08 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-06  9:15 GNU Emacs-libnettle-libhogweed integration patch v1 Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-06  9:58 ` bignum support in Emacs with libgmp (was: GNU Emacs-libnettle-libhogweed integration patch v1) Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-06 16:09 ` GNU Emacs-libnettle-libhogweed integration patch v1 Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-06 21:07   ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-06 16:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-06 16:58   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-06 21:19   ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-07  4:02     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-07 11:41       ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-07 22:03         ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-07 22:58           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-07 23:43             ` Emacs crypto use cases (was: GNU Emacs-libnettle-libhogweed integration patch v1) Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-08  3:02               ` Emacs crypto use cases Stefan Monnier
2013-10-08 10:33                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-08 13:17                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-08 16:35                   ` DSO-style FFI (was: Emacs crypto use cases) Stefan Monnier
2013-10-08 17:32                     ` DSO-style FFI Tom Tromey
2013-10-08 19:42                       ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-08 20:43                         ` Tom Tromey
2013-10-09 23:21                           ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-10  8:09                             ` Andreas Schwab
2013-10-08 20:47                         ` Davis Herring
2013-10-09 22:26                           ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-09 23:52                             ` Davis Herring
2013-10-10  1:25                               ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-10  4:36                                 ` DSO-style DSOs (this is NOT an FFI!) Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-09  1:48                       ` DSO-style FFI Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-09  2:40                       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-12 15:34                         ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2013-10-12 18:55                           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-18 13:31                             ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-19 14:41                               ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-19 15:08                               ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-19 17:33                               ` Andy Moreton
2013-10-19 19:44                                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-12 23:36                           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-08 19:50                     ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]

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