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Re: C interface

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: C interface
Date 2013-06-18 16:10 +0000
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID <2013Jun18.181001@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
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Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>The problem that libffi solves -- the only problem that it is intended
>for -- is that there is no portable way in C to call an arbirtrary
>routine.  Any program that solves this problem, no matter how it
>works, is performing that function.  The fact that libcc.fs does it by
>generating a wrapper function is irrelevant; the effect is the same.

Well, at least now you have defined a little better what "the same
function is".  The problem ist that libffi does not solve that
problem.

- anton
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C interface (was: On the importance of standards) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-06-11 15:41 +0000
  Re: C interface (was: On the importance of standards) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-06-11 18:45 +0200
  Re: C interface Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-06-12 08:05 -0500
    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
        Re: C interface Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-06-14 22:52 -0500
      Re: C interface Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-06-12 13:27 -0500
        Re: C interface anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-06-14 12:51 +0000
          Re: C interface Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-06-14 22:47 -0500
            Re: C interface anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-06-17 16:44 +0000
              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
                Re: C interface Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-06-18 04:06 -0500
                Re: C interface m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2013-06-18 03:51 -0700
                Re: C interface anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-06-18 16:10 +0000
                Re: C interface Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-06-18 13:24 -0500

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