From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Cc: Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@aracnet.com>
Subject: Re: GCC/ObjC enhancements, comments requested
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 07:43:00 -0000
Message-id: <199802091541.QAA10564@halles.ilog.fr>
References: <199802090632.WAA09654@aracnet.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-02/msg00357.html

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

Bruno