From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: FFI in Emacs
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:53:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2pq82yhba.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2bojm6fas.fsf@newartisans.com
On Wed, Jul 11 2012, John Wiegley wrote:
> I took a look at Dave's code, and it's not so much an FFI patch as a "writing
> Emacs Lisp functions in C" patch.
>
> A real FFI patch would let me dlopen any C library and call functions within
> it, such as openssl or zlib. Dave's patch is more like what Python allows:
> writing Emacs Lisp extensions in C that can be loaded as shared libraries.
Well, you'd have a hard time to dlopen C macros.
Helmut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-11 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-27 23:36 FFI in Emacs Aurélien Aptel
2012-06-27 23:47 ` Glenn Morris
2012-06-28 0:03 ` John Wiegley
2012-06-28 2:12 ` Glenn Morris
2012-06-28 3:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-28 4:51 ` John Wiegley
2012-06-28 15:27 ` Nix
2012-07-11 5:24 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-11 5:53 ` Helmut Eller [this message]
2012-07-11 6:43 ` Michael Albinus
2012-07-11 14:04 ` Burton Samograd
2012-07-11 14:07 ` Burton Samograd
2012-07-11 7:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-07-11 7:44 ` Michael Albinus
2012-07-11 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-11 17:08 ` Samuel Bronson
2012-07-11 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-11 18:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-07-11 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-11 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-12 13:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-07-12 17:01 ` Samuel Bronson
2012-07-12 18:54 ` John Wiegley
2012-07-12 23:19 ` Sam Steingold
2012-07-13 2:20 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-07-13 3:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-06-28 6:20 ` joakim
2012-07-11 9:40 ` joakim
2012-08-25 17:25 ` Aurélien Aptel
2012-08-25 18:20 ` joakim
2012-08-26 8:57 ` Ivan Kanis
2012-08-26 13:11 ` joakim
2013-03-12 19:16 ` Aurélien Aptel
2013-03-12 21:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-12 22:40 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-03-13 7:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-03-12 22:53 ` Aurélien Aptel
2013-03-13 0:31 ` Daniel Colascione
2013-03-13 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-22 19:44 ` BT Templeton
2013-03-23 1:51 ` Leo Liu
2013-03-23 2:04 ` Noah Lavine
2013-03-23 16:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-23 18:33 ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
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