From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_FAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB093BC6C for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:13:02 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAK7hokfAXQInh2dsb2JhbACQLgEBAQgKKZ1/ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,291,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="22064320" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 01 Feb 2008 18:13:02 +0100 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m11HCxFS011054 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:13:02 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAGTiokdQW+UCh2dsb2JhbACQLQEBAQgKKZ4A X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,291,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="8619191" Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) ([80.91.229.2]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 01 Feb 2008 18:12:59 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JKzRh-0001tW-TF for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:12:57 +0000 Received: from dsl-207-112-40-34.tor.primus.ca ([207.112.40.34]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:12:57 +0000 Received: from alan.falloon by dsl-207-112-40-34.tor.primus.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:12:57 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Alan Falloon Subject: Re: Easier FFI Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:13:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200712201639.15513.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20071221112006.GA10879@furbychan.cocan.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-207-112-40-34.tor.primus.ca User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) In-Reply-To: <20071221112006.GA10879@furbychan.cocan.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: news X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 47A3531C.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ffi:01 gcc:01 compile-time:01 type-safe:01 bindings:01 forklift:98 forklift:98 wrote:01 inline:01 alan:02 alan:02 types:05 promising:12 requires:13 cil:85 Richard Jones wrote: > If there was a way to > take a block of C code, work out what types it requires (using > something like gcc? CIL?), then you could generate compile-time > type-safe bindings for inline C code. That would be a marvellous > thing to have ... Does anyone know how forklift is coming along? That seemed like a promising project in this direction. Is this the authoratative web site? http://code.google.com/p/forklift/