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Re: FFI in Emacs
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Glenn Morris |
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Re: FFI in Emacs |
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Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:47:51 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Aurélien Aptel wrote:
> All in all, FFI is a really cool feature. The only real problem is
> that some people (and particularly Dr. Stallman) think that a FFI
> might lead to the development of proprietary plugins.
This aspect was resolved years ago.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg00240.html
We gave GCC a plug-in interface last year, after developing a method
to make it safer. So now it is ok to do this in Emacs as well.
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Dynamic-Plug_002dIn-Interfaces.html