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From: Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com>
To: Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com, Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@aracnet.com>
Subject: Re: GCC/ObjC enhancements, comments requested
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 15:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199802092059.MAA16032@net-community.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199802091541.QAA10564@halles.ilog.fr>

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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Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com> (NeXTMail, MIME)
http://www.net-community.com/Users/~ovidiu/ (GNUstep/OPENSTEP free software)

  reply	other threads:[~1998-02-09 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-02-07 18:11 Scott Christley
1998-02-07 22:43 ` Richard Henderson
1998-02-08 10:21   ` Scott Christley
1998-02-10  3:34     ` Richard Henderson
1998-02-10 14:45   ` Anthony Green
1998-02-08 10:27 ` Ovidiu Predescu
1998-02-08 13:12   ` Marcus G. Daniels
1998-02-08 22:32     ` Ovidiu Predescu
1998-02-09  7:43       ` Bruno Haible
1998-02-09 15:33         ` Ovidiu Predescu [this message]
     [not found]           ` <199802092146.WAA04183@halles.ilog.fr>
1998-02-10 10:58             ` Ovidiu Predescu
1998-02-10 14:45               ` Joern Rennecke
1998-02-09 11:31       ` Marcus G. Daniels
1998-02-10  3:34       ` Richard Henderson
1998-02-10 10:58         ` Ovidiu Predescu
1998-02-09 14:46     ` Anthony Green

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