Why was FFI removed from the 3.0 VM's?

Mon Mar 19 17:29:48 UTC 2001

On Monday 19 March 2001 09:22, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> Unsafe modules should be handled elsewhere. Lex's suggestion of a list of
> "safe" modules sounds okay. A simpler convention could be to only allow
> modules that are built into the VM.

Except, of course, for FFI, where primitiveCalloutToFFI() could (or should) 
check the secure flag directly. I haven't been able to get FFI to work as 
anything but a built-in.

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Ned Konz
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