Bug#782275: pre-parsed cffi runtime data structures

2015-04-15 Thread Stefano Rivera
Control: tag -1 upstream Hi Glyph (2015.04.13_23:46:18_-0400) Right now, cffi uses pycparser to parse the declarations for two reasons: 1. to generate the .c file which it then compiles, at build time 2. to generate the run-time metadata it uses to invoke that library, at run time Yep.

Bug#782275: pre-parsed cffi runtime data structures

2015-04-13 Thread Glyph
Right now, cffi uses pycparser to parse the declarations for two reasons: 1. to generate the .c file which it then compiles, at build time 2. to generate the run-time metadata it uses to invoke that library, at run time there is no intermediary representation of the signatures which pycparser