Re: [Axiom-developer] uffi

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  GCL does have socket support, but not 'uffi' (Universal
Foreign Function Interface), yet.  The latter is a proposal outside
the ANSI standard to uniformize the syntax of accessing any external
code from within lisp.  GCL has a means of doing this too, but it
differs in syntax from this proposal.  

The socket support is known to work in the rudimentary testing I've
done, but I'm sure it could benefit from heavier use and user
feedback.  We've already discussed a number of extensions, e.g. select
multitasking, and an existing project like axiom needing same would be
all I'd need to move it to a higher priority.

Take care,

"Page, Bill" <address@hidden> writes:

> I thought GCL already had socket support built-in?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Camm Maguire [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 12:43 PM
> > To: Tim Daly
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] uffi
> > 
> > 
> > Greetings!
> > 
> > The short answer is 'not yet'.  I'd be happy to assist with any
> > specific C FFI you might need, as GCL's ability, though perhaps not
> > standard, is (IMHO) quite good in this area.
> > 
> > Take care,
> > 
> > Tim Daly  <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > Camm,
> > > 
> > > I want to lift the socket code from C to lisp in a portable way.
> > > Does GCL support uffi? 
> > > 
> > > Failing that I'll do it specifically for GCL and then port it
> > > to uffi elsewhere. 
> > > 
> > > t
> > > 
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> > Camm Maguire                                                
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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