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

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.


2018-04-12 23:27 GMT+02:00 Denis Kudriashov <dionisiydk at gmail.com>:

> Hi
>
> 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>:
>
>> On 12 April 2018 at 22:34, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmai
>> l.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)
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> ​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.
>>
>> ​- Bert -​
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