On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 10:37:49 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Saturday, 28 February 2015 at 17:06:58 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Friday, 27 February 2015 at 19:49:37 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist
wrote:
I just think its a shame that all over the place people are
compiling code in different programming languages, and
although all the .o files are compatible with each other
there isn't a standard cross language way of defining a
binding. But that would be making people agree on things...
C is pretty much a standard for cross-language ABI
Object files have no language-level compatibility, only
linker-level compatibility. You can get function arguments
wrong, and linker won't tell you.
So, I don't thing C is very easy to pull data from, In fact i
would guess the only way this would work is if the compiler
produced standard data format like JSON or XML or YAML if you
like that kind of thing. And then transformed it to native code.
<CStyleFunction="Foo">
<ReturnType>
<sint32>
</ReturnType>
<Parameter>
<Float64="MyFloat">
</Parameter>
</CStyleFunction>
I think YAML would look nicer... I also know that some languages
have certain capabilities. And this is a lot more complex of
problem. But I hear about people making automatic binding
generators and all sorts of 1 off tools, I just don't understand
why there doesn't seem to be common standard solution.
