[squeak-dev] FFI | How to declare pointer to external structure in #fields?

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Tue May 19 07:29:50 UTC 2020


Le mar. 19 mai 2020 à 08:15, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> a
écrit :

> > How does UFFI come here?
>
> I just wanted to backtrack those struct pointers lead to the accessor in
> Pharo. But it gave me no easy clue that I could apply to plain FFI in
> Squeak. :-)
>
> > I started to write a documentation of FFI implementation two or three
> months ago ...
>
> Yeah! I will have a look at it. GitHub Markdown + embedded graphics also
> hosted on GitHub could work. And support pull requests. :-) Maybe put it
> into the osvm repository.
>
> Hi Marcel,
this was my exact intention, but I wanted some more powerful Markdown, so
considering either pandoc or pilar...

Best,
> Marcel
>
> Am 18.05.2020 23:47:38 schrieb Vanessa Freudenberg <vanessa at codefrau.net>:
> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:56 PM Nicolas Cellier <
> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I started to write a documentation of FFI implementation two or three
>> months ago, I don't remember exactly, it's an eternity. The lock down did
>> not give me an opportunity to continue. I want to publish with some liberal
>> CC license, but I don't have chosen a support format yet. On one side, I
>> wanted to focus on contents more than on the format. But on the other side,
>> I want some graphical illustrations accurate enough. I wrote in Word
>> because it was easy for me to include tables and graphics, but it's kinda
>> stupid, especially because Word make you focus on format more than contents
>> ! LaTeX is not general enough, it would rather be a backend nowadays. I
>> contemplated using pandoc which has good support, or the much more limited
>> Pilar, which at least is Smalltalk based...
>> The structure is not well established and the work is very preliminary,
>> but since there is some demand, I give a pdf copy here as is, I hope it's
>> not too big for the list. This probably should better be continued as a
>> collaborative work anyway.
>>
>
> Awesome!
>
> - Vanessa -
>
>
>
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