2018-04-13 17:08 GMT+02:00 Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:

> Hi Nicolas,
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> On Apr 13, 2018, at 7:01 AM, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@
> gmail.com> wrote:
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> So I started to improve the Squeak FFI:
> -1) I corrected pointer arithmetic on 64 bits
> http://source.squeak.org/FFI/FFI-Kernel-nice.48.diff
> -2) I prepared the possibility of having automated layout spec updates
> http://source.squeak.org/FFI/FFI-Kernel-nice.49.diff
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> Note that the FFI plugin by itself did not change.
> The next steps should be to provide support for native platform alignment
> of fields and unions.
> I'll focus on these when i can.
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> I shall join you as soon as I am able.  Right now I have a pressing task,
> but within a few weeks I should be able to help.
>
>
Hi Eliot,
thanks.
I think that I can manage the easiest image side issues, but as soon as a
feature will require an evolution of the plugin, your review is mandatory,
as well as coordination with Pharo team, Backward compatibility counts and
Esteban spent enough time on UFFI, so this will mean either unifying our
forces or forking a plugin!

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> 2018-04-12 23:27 GMT+02:00 Denis Kudriashov <dionisiydk at gmail.com>:
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>> Hi
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>> There is project TalkFFI <https://github.com/estebanlm/TalkFFI> from
>> Ciprian Teodorov.
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>> 2018-04-12 22:50 GMT+02:00 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
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>>> On 12 April 2018 at 22:34, Nicolas Cellier <
>>> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> There are at least two problems:
>>>> - documentation (lack of)
>>>> - limitations (unions, pointer on pointer on ...)
>>>> - automation (I said at least two, not at most)
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>>>> For the first problem, I opened the SO issues. Not ideal, but it's a
>>>> start.
>>>> For the second, I'll see if I can do something...
>>>> For the third, I did import some .h header with VW DLLCC, and I'm in
>>>> the process of translating to other dialects.
>>>> It's easier because Smalltalk syntax is order of magnitudes smaller
>>>> than C syntax.
>>>>
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>>> ​I always thought it should be fairly straightforward to make a FFI
>>> bindings generator using SWIG (http://www.swig.org/).
>>>
>>> SWIG parses C headers and outputs XML. Starting from that XML should be
>>> way easier than trying to parse C ourselves.
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>>> ​- Bert -​
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