[cffi-devel] Re: unnamed callback (closures?)

[Luís Oliveira]

"Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril" <Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle at t-systems.com> writes:
> In CLISP, every closure can be turned into a callback, and this is
> valuable since it allows to retrieve context information out of the
> closure.  Is cffi's limitation caused by some implementations?

To my knowledge, yes. AFAICT, only SBCL/x86 and CLISP support that.

Regarding the behaviour of CFFI:DEFCALLBACK as a non-toplevel form, not
only will it set it globally, the callback itself won't be generated at
runtime on most Lisp, IIRC.

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