Tim Jenness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Tuomas Lukka wrote:
>
>> > Both of these are language related. Is ther really nothing in the
>> > internals that we need to make pdl better?
>>
>> One important thing that I don't have time to write an RFC for: allow XS
>> to make dynamically loaded modules' jump tableable automatically.
>> Currently, if you want to use another module's library or routines, you
>> have to modify the other module to generate a jump table. Either sharing
>> the symbols (via options) or allowing autogenerated jumptables would be
>> great.
>>
>
>I think that the Tk module suffers from the same problem so it might be
>quite easy to make a case for it.
Er - Tk has (compile time generated) tables of functions.
You can call into Tk (from C) by getting address of function table from
perl variable and then doing (*table->func)(x,y,z).
Is this relevant to what was being discussed?
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Nick Ing-Simmons
