Use FFI to dynamically load shared library on Mac OS 10.5
John M McIntosh
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Sat Jan 19 01:04:45 UTC 2008
On Jan 18, 2008, at 2:21 PM, James Foster wrote:
> The SqueakDebug flag was very helpful. I now have the message that
> it found the library but the library had the wrong architecture. Now
> that I think of it, this seems quite likely--I'm trying to load a 64-
> bit library into a 32-bit executable. I'll see if I can find a 32-
> bit library; I bet that will work. Thanks very much.
>
> James
Thanks, I added this feature because diagnosing *why* a FFI call
didn't work was always most painful, find the library, nope, load the
library, nope, find the function, nope, oh does the data being passed
match the api: declare nope.... Lot's of nopes...
Today I noted that sending bad data to fileno() via FFI causes the VM
to crash, that sounds like a buffer/overflow opportunity. Still the
intent was
not to segfault, so yes saying longAt: 4 isn't really what you want,
you want longAt: 5, something about that is that 0 based offseting or
1 based?
Just so I can say stat(fileno(squeak fileno),...) to avoid the
lengthy time to get modificationTime via reading the entire directory...
>
>
> P.S. It would be nice if #forceLoading actually resulted in an error
> if the load fails.
The Squeak Mantis system awaits your request.
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