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Re: CNI for C
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:23, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Geert Bevin writes:
> >
> > is there anything underway to offer something similar to CNI but then
> > for C and not for C++?
>
> We haven't been working on this.
>
> How would you do it? What is the C equivalent of the this pointer, or
> a virtual function? I suppose we could write a bunch of macros to do
> the job, but would anyone use them?
I think maybe all anyone really needs is the equivalent of pinvoke, then
they can do it themselves.
Is there a library that allows me to dynamically call a C function
without generating code? Ie, if I know it has an int as the first
argument, and a char * as the second, can I dynamically call it? I think
if there is, then there is no reason that gcj can't be at least as
compatible to C as Mono is alleged to be.
>
> That's a very interesting idea. However, the resistance to using CNI
> has been that
>
> * We can't use VM-specific features that may be useful, such as CNI.
> <http://ometer.com/desktop-language.html>
>
> So even if we did create C-CNI, wouldn't this still be the case?
> People would still not want to use it, because it's VM specific.
If you had a library that could call C functions then surely you could
just use JNI to attach to it, thus making everybody happy?
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Andrew Shuttlewood <andrew.shuttlewood@futureroute.co.uk>
Futureroute