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From: Florent Monnier <fmonnier@linux-nantes.fr.eu.org>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Wrapping var_args, or C ... in ocaml?
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:16:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002151116.00907.fmonnier@linux-nantes.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B787D32.10505@citycable.ch>

Le dimanche 14 février 2010 23:46:10, Guillaume Yziquel a écrit :
> I mean, it seems that varargs means on the receiving end "the number of 
> arguments you'r giving me, as a function, is not limited", whereas on 
> the sending end, you hard-code the number of arguments in your C code.
> 
> Is there a way to map an OCaml list to an ellipsis? Or is it a C
>  limitation?

Yes, as long as I know, for this you should use these kind of tools:

http://sourceware.org/libffi/
http://www.gnu.org/software/libffcall/
http://www.nongnu.org/cinvoke/
http://dyncall.org/


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-15 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-14 15:46 Guillaume Yziquel
2010-02-14 18:06 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2010-02-14 20:26   ` Richard Jones
2010-02-14 22:46   ` Guillaume Yziquel
2010-02-14 22:59     ` Richard Jones
2010-02-14 23:13       ` Guillaume Yziquel
2010-02-14 23:19         ` Richard Jones
2010-02-15  1:34           ` Guillaume Yziquel
2010-02-15  2:37             ` Thomas Fischbacher
2010-02-14 23:31         ` Richard Jones
2010-02-15 10:16     ` Florent Monnier [this message]
     [not found]     ` <201002151106.23642.fmonnier@linux-nantes.fr.eu.org>
     [not found]       ` <4B7F3FED.4010100@citycable.ch>
2010-02-20  2:41         ` Guillaume Yziquel

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