[usocket-devel] ECL's DFFI (was Re: [Ecls-list] [ANN] ECL 11.1.1)

[Chun Tian (binghe)]

Seems we should start research how to port exist ECL support code into DFFI as an additional feature, by detecting the #+DFFI feature.

Any comment?

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> ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project aims to
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> ECL's dynamic FFI (the one that does not rely on a C compiler) is now
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> ECL, users will have to make sure that this library is built and
> available for this feature to be linked in (#+dffi). Otherwise only
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