Re: FFI

[Zajcev Evgeny]

address@hidden writes:

> Zajcev Evgeny <address@hidden> writes:
[..]
>>
>> As I noticed before, I can port and maintain FFI implementation for
>> GNU Emacs, but i need some kind of guaranties that community will
>> accept it, so my work won't be a waste of time..
>
> My understanding is that a FFI for Emacs must comply to a interface,
> which is not yet defined. This interface will probably be similar to
> the plugin api in GCC. Basically, the dll to be loaded must export a
> GPL compliance symbol. It ought to be possible to add this check to
> your FFI implementation, when running in Emacs, even if you do not
> use it in SXEmacs.

this is doable, of course GNU Emacs will have some specials about FFI
(as one you've described), but at least it will have same lisp level
API for code reuse between communities

thanks

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