Re: FFI in Emacs

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>]

John Wiegley writes:

 > A real FFI patch

Which both Python (aka the ctypes module) and SXEmacs have.

    http://www.sxemacs.org/

SXEmacs' implementation is about 5 years old, I believe, so the bugs
should be pretty well worked out.  It's not as elaborate as Python's
ctypes, but quite usable.  I don't see why such code would be
particularly SXEmacs-specific (up to the difference in the DEFUN
macro), so it should be fairly easily portable to Emacs on platforms
that have libffi.  It probably doesn't work on Windows (SXEmacs hasn't
supported Windows for quite a while).

I don't know if the authors would assign; it's easy enough to ask
them, though.  The VCS knows who they are.  (It should be quite
reliable as SXEmacs has always used a pull-style workflow based on a
dVCS.  You shouldn't have to worry about "committed on behalf of").