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> From: "John Wiegley" <johnw@newartisans.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:24:27 -0500
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> A real FFI patch would let me dlopen any C library and call functions within
> it, such as openssl or zlib.

What for?