Hi Nicolas,


> On Apr 13, 2018, at 7:01 AM, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

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.

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> 2018-04-12 23:27 GMT+02:00 Denis Kudriashov <dionisiydk at gmail.com>:
>> Hi
>> 
>> There is project 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 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)
>>>> 
>>>> 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/).
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>>> 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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