[Ecls-list] FFI paradigms (was Re: ECL 10.2.1 RC)

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Matthew Mondor
<mm_lists at pulsar-zone.net>wrote:

> [... long email about the limitations of UFFI ...]


Nothing to add here. UFFI was and is very limited. CFFI is probably the way
to go for portable code, and is even favored for standardization. However,
1) the ECL backend is crappy, 2) it will also not support GCC alignment
extensions and 3) it may still have problems with structures if a compiler
makes weird design choices. Problem 3) is solved by the fact that there are
more eyes watching CFFI and ensuring that it works.

Juanjo

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