Re: rep.ffi

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>]

Am Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:59:51 +0900 (JST)
schrieb Teika Kazura <teika lavabit com>:

> On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:51:35 +0200, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
> > does anyone of you have a clue on how to use rep.ffi?
> > 
> > Well I'm able to load a lib and to lookup a symbol, but I'm struggling on calling a
> > symbol...
> > user> (ffi-lookkup-symbol 8 "wprintf")
> > 3063307008
> > 
> > Now... what?
> 
> ffi-apply?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   (ffi-apply INTERFACE FN-POINTER ARG-LIST) -> RET-VALUE
>     -- calls a function and returns its result
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yeah, but when I need to call ffi-struct & Co before, I thought there might be a function
like in python which simply calls it.

> > It seems that rep.ffi is somewhat complete,
> 
> Only somewhat. From librep-0.17 news,
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> * Added `rep.ffi' module (Foreign Function Interface). Uses gcc's
>   libffi. ***Very untested.***
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Only 4 edits were done by John Harper on src/ffi.c.

right, but a ALT-Linux user improved it while 0.90x cycle.
 
> > so we might use it for glueing GTK+3 I guess.
> Cross your finger. ;)
> 
> Teika (Teika kazura)
>