[Vm-dev] [Vm-beginners] Stability of the external plugin interface

[Nicolas Cellier]

Le mer. 27 mai 2020 à 07:09, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> a écrit :

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> > On 2020-05-26, at 8:10 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
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> > DLLCC’s C parser is a nightmare to maintain,
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> I certainly remember *that*. Poor Marcel Schelvis practically went mad
> working on it.
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> If you try putting C++ syntax on a postcard, you probably gonna beat the
number of folds you can perform on a sheet before it fits in any mailing
box.

>  So what the FFI author does is define a shared pool which has
> platform-specific metadata, specifically the necessary include files and
> version selection defines for each relevant platform.  The FFI shared pool
> machinery takes care of generating the program when necessary (only when
> authoring an FFI), and running it when necessary (only once for a
> single-platform app, only when launching on a different platform to the one
> snapshotted on)
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> Sounds good to me. Beats parsing secondhand and possibly inaccurate
> information intended for an inferior language
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> tim
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> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
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