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From: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
To: Adrien <camaradetux@gmail.com>
Cc: Caml Mailing List <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Binding C libraries which use variable arguments (stdarg.h)
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:35:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEAB347.3060008@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <666572260910291418p585b0aa9laadc14f6589c9772@mail.gmail.com>

[Invoking a variadic C argument from OCaml]

>> Assuming a Linux system, you could lazily generate the glue code and
>> invoke dynamic linker on it. So the general case would be to call the
>> code generator.
> 
> On linux and x86, I could probably use an array where I would move by
> sizeof(some_type). I really want portability however (I want to use
> these bindings at least on windows too).

It might be worth investigating the "libffi" library.  If I guess
correctly, it lets you synthesize calls to native C functions when the
number and type of arguments are statically unknown.

- Xavier Leroy


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-30  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-28 22:07 Adrien
2009-10-28 22:45 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2009-10-29  8:55   ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-29 21:37     ` Adrien
2009-10-29 23:31       ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-10-29 21:18   ` Adrien
2009-10-30  9:35     ` Xavier Leroy [this message]
2009-11-01  9:31       ` Adrien
2009-11-01 11:07         ` Florian Weimer
2009-11-01 12:12           ` Adrien
2009-11-01 12:16             ` Florian Weimer
2009-11-01 14:58               ` Adrien
2009-11-01 20:06                 ` Richard Jones
2009-11-03 19:33                 ` Florian Weimer

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