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Re: FFI in Emacs
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Helmut Eller |
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Re: FFI in Emacs |
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Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:53:29 +0200 |
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On Wed, Jul 11 2012, John Wiegley wrote:
> I took a look at Dave's code, and it's not so much an FFI patch as a "writing
> Emacs Lisp functions in C" patch.
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> A real FFI patch would let me dlopen any C library and call functions within
> it, such as openssl or zlib. Dave's patch is more like what Python allows:
> writing Emacs Lisp extensions in C that can be loaded as shared libraries.
Well, you'd have a hard time to dlopen C macros.
Helmut