Re: ffcall vs ffi

[Adam Fedor]

Dan Pascu wrote:

> I see there is support for both ffcall and ffi in gnustep-base
> if both are enabled, ffi will be preferred over ffcall.
> does this mean that ffi is better for gnustep than ffcall?
> which of the 2 is better to use?

Actually, ffi isn't supported, even though the configure tests are there 
and some code is there. I never got around to finishing it off once I 
got ffcall working (probably needs a rewrite now anyway).

ffi is integrated in gcc, so in the future it might be better supported, 
although right now it does not run on as many platforms (not the 
important parts of it, at least).

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