Not a chance. The "base address" of an object isn't constant; the object 
will be moved by a GC and therefore you simply can't guarantee that "foo 
baseAddress" is a meaningful value for any period of time other than  in 
the primitive call itself (even the return from the primitive could 
cause a process switch, which could cause GC somewhere, which could move 
the object, which invalidates the base address).

Cheers,
   - Andreas

nicolas cellier wrote:
> Now playing with FFI, i really appreciate to be able to handle memory in a 
> Smalltalk space, with a ByteArray.
> 
> Unfotunately, one little thing lack on ByteArray: pointer arithmetic.
> 
> I'd like to pass an address kind of (aByteArray baseAdress + 4) to a FFI CALL 
> for example...
> 
> I can do that right now with external heap (ExternalAddress new fromInteger: 
> anAddress asInteger + 4), but not with Smalltalk-space.
> 
> Maybe an IndirectByteArray could be added to the FFI plugin?
> 
> This would be really cool.
> 
> Nicolas
> 
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