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Re: [Gcl-devel] UFFI
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Camm Maguire |
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Re: [Gcl-devel] UFFI |
Date: |
27 Jun 2005 11:06:04 -0400 |
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Greetings, and thanks for your interest in this!
"Steven H. Rogers" <address@hidden> writes:
> From reviewing the archives, it seems that while Camm thinks porting UFFI to
> GCL would be a good thing to do and should
> be straight forward, he's too wrapped up with ANSI compliance for 2.7 to
> address it in the near term. Is anyone else
> working on UFFI for GCL?
>
I do not know of anyone, and I will not have time until ansi is done.
GCL has a well-developed and powerful foreign function interface, but
not the standard uffi one (yet). It is based aournd defcfun,
defentry, and clines (see docs, and threads in gcl-devel for examples
re: blas library interface). What is needed is someone who has read
up on what uffi requires, and can map this functionality to that spec.
> If no one is working on this and one were begin this project in the near
> future, would it be best to work with GCL 2.6.6
> or 2.7.0t1?
>
If uffi requires ansi semantics, I'd use the latest testing version,
which is now Version_2_7_0t2. Otherwise, I'd use 2.6.6, as nothing
we're doing in 2.7 is likely to affect what is needed for uffi, and it
represents a more stable starting point.
Are you volunteering (hope so)? Can you indeicate what end-user (as
opposed to developer) applications this might enable on gcl?
Take care,
> Regards,
> Steve
>
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