From: Dmitry Bely <dbely@mail.ru>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] CamlIDL question
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:10:59 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wuome02k.fsf@mail.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021013104825.H13771@pauillac.inria.fr> (Xavier Leroy's message of "Sun, 13 Oct 2002 10:48:25 +0200")
Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr> writes:
>> Is the below trick is possible in CamlIDL?
>> I want to wrap C library that uses structs for storing
>> pointers to functions
>
> No, CamlIDL doesn't support C function pointers. The reason is that
> mapping C functions pointers to Caml functions is easy, but mapping
> Caml function closures to C functions is nearly impossible (there is
> nowhere to store and pass the environment part of the closure).
It's possible using the "trampoline" technique, when the necessary small
stub functions are generated on the fly in the data (or stack)
segment. This is how gcc's nested functions work. There is "ffcall" library
that implements trampolines for (probably) all hardware platforms where
OCaml may run. Am I using it with OcamlIDL to do just what Youry asked
for. Unfortinately ffcall's author website has been disappeared, but it
should not be a problem to find "ffcall-1.8c.tar.gz" somethere in the
Internet.
- Dmitry Bely
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-13 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-07 14:02 Yurii A. Rashkovskii
2002-10-13 8:48 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-10-13 17:10 ` Dmitry Bely [this message]
2002-10-13 23:12 ` Chris Hecker
2005-10-25 22:26 Christian Stork
2005-10-26 5:03 ` [Caml-list] " Igor Pechtchanski
2005-10-26 11:11 ` Christian Stork
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