-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-10-05 00:01:13 -0400 Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Neither work out of the box on the Zaurus. The notes included with libffi shows just what sort of fine guy the writer of libffi is, because it's all out there, even test code. If I can't write that stuff, I don't deserve the great challenge. On the other hand, there's nearly no info on libffcall. I'm not saying it's going to be impossible, but it sure as heck is going to be a great deal more difficult to do, so the question is: is it really worth it, to go for libffcall, or could libffi do the job (once I get it ported)??
WRT GNUstep, I've had varying luck with both, possibly leaning toward the sentiment that ffcall is more stable than libffi (again, wrt GNUstep). However, as far as using ffcall or libffi in my own development, I've found that ffcall generally has better documentation. I'd start with "man 3 [avcall | vacall | trampoline | callback ]" depending on what sort of ffi you need to do. If you ned to extend ffcall or libffi, rather than program with it ... I haven't poked around in the libffi sources much, but ffcall is fairly straightforward -- if you know another arch better than i386 I suggest looking at all the files for that arch as examples (falling back to i386, if you need to -- or if you know that best, go for it). Good luck -- your project sounds neat. __Armando Di Cianno -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using the GPG bundle for GNUMail iD8DBQFDQ/IzwgiTPLI9xhcRArONAJ0ZRfA5e8hNWzXStRYm6Y2MyPgzQQCePMyd hoSmhawoovL2wx4izmAt14E= =0w+o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
