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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: FFI supports callbacks
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:56:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vd6hww37.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87iq2io0nj.fsf@newton.homeunix.net

Hi!

"Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org> writes:

>> Also consider that this is a low-level interface; presumably people
>> should be programming with some sort of `define-c-wrapper' macro that
>> presents a nicer interface.
>
> Is anyone working on this?

I’m not really working on this but I’m interested (I’ve been using
(system foreign) + custom macros so far.)

> I happen to quite like the design presented in the paper "The Layers
> of Larceny's design":
>
> <http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/pnkfelix/Published/klock-ffi-schemeworkshop-2008.html>

Sounds cool.

There’s also a C parser in Bigloo (“Cigloo”), which could be reused to
extract information from C headers.

Thanks,
Ludo’.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-07 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-03 14:30 FFI supports callbacks Ludovic Courtès
2010-09-03 16:51 ` Andy Wingo
2010-09-03 17:27   ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-09-05 15:10     ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-09-05 22:23       ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2010-09-06 12:06         ` Andy Wingo
2010-09-07  0:30           ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2010-09-07  7:38             ` Tristan Colgate
2010-09-07 12:56             ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2010-09-07 21:01             ` Andy Wingo
2010-09-06 12:32         ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-09-06 12:04       ` Andy Wingo
2010-09-08 16:21         ` Ludovic Courtès

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