Re: C interface

From	anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: C interface
Date	2013-06-18 07:23 +0000
Organization	Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID	<2013Jun18.092318@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
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Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>> Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>>>I don't quite sollow this discussion.  libffi is not a complete
>>>solution to the problem of calling native functions and back, but a
>>>useful part of such a solution.  You can't do without it, or something
>>>that performs the same function.
>> 
>> It turns out that neither libffi nor ffcall are a useful part of such
>> a solution: libcc.fs uses neither.
>
>Whuch part of "or performs the same function" is imprecise or
>inaccurate?

All of it, that's why I was specific in my response, and mentioned one
other thing that you might consider to perform the same function, and
described how libcc.fs works some of which you might also consider to
perform the same function (but I don't).

- anton
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  Re: On the importance of standards Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-06-08 00:58 +0200
    Re: On the importance of standards Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-06-07 22:02 -0500
      Re: On the importance of standards Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-06-09 00:55 +0200
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      Re: C interface anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-06-12 14:38 +0000
        Re: C interface Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-06-12 20:15 +0200
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                Re: C interface Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-06-17 12:46 -0500
                Re: C interface anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-06-18 07:23 +0000
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