Re: Dynamic loading progress

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> A well-designed set of APIs between Emacs and modules will avoid this
> and other similar problems.  This has already been done at least
> twice, in 2 different ways: in Make and in Gawk.

Sure, but the cffi/libffi approach has seen a lot more uptake than that: GCC, 
CPython, OpenJDK, PLT Scheme, etc., etc.  It's quite a well-trodden path.

> we have only one problem: design and implement a minimal set of
> APIs necessary for modules to work, and keep it minimal.

cffi/libffi provides a good framework for that, no?  Why reinvent the wheel? 
Because that's what we'd need to do, when designing this new emacs.h file.