AW: [cffi-devel] bits from a new tutorial

Luís Oliveira luismbo at gmail.com
Thu Dec 22 17:34:09 UTC 2005


On 2005-dec-22, at 16:48, Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril wrote:
> Luís Oliveira wrote:
>> This tutorial shows the usefulness of foreign-funcall for C functions
>> with varargs. Lispworks unfortunately doesn't export this
>> functionality.
> I consider it an omission in a foreign API if all that is provided  
> is varargs. I'd bug the respective developers until they provide a  
> function that takes an array of some such.

Agreed. Still, the ability to call varargs functions seems to be  
useful. Namely, James is working on an Objective-C bridge on top of  
CFFI that uses this functionality.

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Luís Oliveira
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