Hi Paolo, Could you provide an example of how to use the new call call-out short cuts?
Thank you kindly, Brad Watson ----- Original Message ---- From: Paolo Bonzini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Krishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 4:43:22 AM Subject: [Help-smalltalk] Re: freeglut and opengl bindings > With SWIG, we get instant access to bindings for a lot of libs. > Sometime back, took a look at the SWIG manual but my smalltalk is > quite poor and I never really got the time to learn the language > properly. Gotta do something about that... Actually, most of porting SWIG would be about C/C++ coding. It creates C/C++ wrappers for all the functions -- quite different from what Brad has done so far, for example -- which accept language objects and call the underlying function. It could actually be faster if we had a primitive to do a C call directly, with no interpretation in cint.c. While I was working on speeding up C call-outs, I just added a small feature. If you declare a method with <cCall: 'function'> (i.e. no returning: or args: keywords), it is the same as passing all the arguments as #smalltalk, plus (if the method is on the instance side) passing the receiver as #selfSmalltalk. This would be the calling convention that SWIG needs, and the new syntax (which is only a shortcut so far) might be transformed to a primitive if the SWIG plan materialized. Paolo _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link $420k for $1,399/mo. Think You Pay Too Much For Your Mortgage? Find Out! www.LowerMyBills.com/lre _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
