Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of CFFI

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11/28/09 03:27:11 (12 years ago)
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  • CFFI

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     1"SWIG"<http://www.swig.org> is a code generator that generates inferfaces of C and C++ libraries for use by various languages. 
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     3Parrot NCI can access C-libraries without the help of a compiler, but still a little bit of code has to 
     4be written. SWIG can help with that task. 
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     6Implementation should be fairly easy. As a starting point one can take the "cffi"<http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Lisp.html#Lisp_nn3> backend of SWIG. 
     7*cffi* is the "Common Foreign Function Interface"<http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/> of CommonLisp. 
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     9Another possibility is to teach Parrot about the *cffi*. Parrot just needs to understand the files 
     10generated by e.g. the cffi backend of SWIG. 
     11Parrot doesn't have to use a lisp implementation nor needs to know how Lisp implementations do  
     12foreign function calls. 
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     14See also "Design Issues for Foreign Function Interfaces"<http://autocad.xarch.at/lisp/ffis.html>.