GCC/ObjC enhancements, comments requested

[Ovidiu Predescu]

On Mon, 9 Feb 1998 16:41:10, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Ovidiu Predescu writes:
>
> > What we're trying to build is a system that allows us to build a function
> > call at _runtime_, knowing the address of the function, the argument
> > types and the return value. ...
> >
> > What is needed is a way to access and set the arguments in the frame
> > passed to __builtin_apply() and the return value respectively in
> > __builtin_return().
>
> You can do this with the `avcall' part of the `ffcall' library. Have a look
> at
>
> http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-ffcall.html
> ftp://ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/ffcall-1.3.tar.gz

Thanks for the pointer Bruno, I've took a look on it several months ago,  
it's really cool! What I would like to see though is a compiler based  
approach as it would be much more easier and straightforward than maintaining  
an additional library.

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