Re: [Chicken-users] passing a string to foreign-lambda*

[John Cowan]

Alex Queiroz scripsit:

>     I guess this is better:
> 
> (define-macro make-foreign
>  (lambda (funcs)
>    (map
>     (lambda (func)
>       `(define ,func (foreign-lambda int ,(symbol->string func) int)))
>     funcs)))

Yes, that works.  However, it occurs to me that if what Martin actually
wants is a C function whose body is some string whose value
is not known until run-time, no amount of fiddling with macros will
accomplish that; C functions have to be known before run time so
they can be compiled.

The alternative is to use the tcc (tiny C compiler) egg, which lets
you construct and compile C functions at runtime and then invoke them.
Note that tcc only works on i386 platforms and requires glibc
(and therefore will not compile on Cygwin).

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