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On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 18:16 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 20:52 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
>>On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 15:20 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>>I have written up a draft spec for the format of the binary metadata
>>>to back up the repository api which I posted earlier. I hope to have
>>>some initial code implementing both of these soon.
>>>
>>>Comments highly appreciated,
>>
>> OK, I probably missed something but, exactly how are language bindings
>>supposed to get the actual API function pointers? All I can see is
>>function name. Should we use dlsym() (or glib equivalent abstraction)?
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>c_name: The symbol which can be used to obtain the function pointer with
>dlsym().
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>So yes.
Right, I did miss that. I just read "in diagonal"...
>
>> Once we get the function pointer, are we supposed to use libffi to
>>call the function with the actual parameters?
>
>Hmm. That is a problem. Perhaps we could provide a way to easily
>generate marshallers for functions in the introspection data on the
>client end. It's a little unclear to me how this would integrate into
>compilation.
>
>I guess languages like Java/C# will already be using libffi or
>equivalent and so this won't be an issue.
I'm not saying libffi is bad, if we have computer generated prototype
descriptions. Manually using libffi is more of a problem due to the
human tendency to make mistakes...
Another concern about libffi is portability. But I looked at the home
page and it seems to be fairly portable, so event that may not be much
of a problem.
I just wanted these things to be clear. No point in agreeing on
high-level interfaces if we can't get lower-level details to work.
Regards.
--
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
<gjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The universe is always one step beyond logic.
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