[squeak-dev] Loading FFI is broken

Andres Valloud avalloud at smalltalk.comcastbiz.net
Wed Nov 20 03:16:01 UTC 2013


On 11/19/13 19:13 , Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
> That's not so. I came up with a scheme and implemented a prototype for
> VW.  All one need do is generate a wrapper and compile it on the
> platform.  One can autogenerate and autocompile the wrapper.  The
> wrapper can either be something that outputs metadata interpreted by the
> image or something that actually wraps the platform functions.  If it
> can be called from C then, with a little ingenuity, it an be called
> through an FFI.  An FFI is not just a marshaller.

An FFI is not a C compiler either :).


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