[ clisp-Patches-1028683 ] try-it-out preliminary UFFI support

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Patches item #1028683, was opened at 2004-09-15 12:59
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Submitted By: Jörg Höhle (hoehle)
Assigned to: Jörg Höhle (hoehle)
Summary: try-it-out preliminary UFFI support

Initial Comment:
Enough vapourware, here are the files.
ffi-patches and uffi.lisp

You'll see yourself that uffi.lisp is incomplete. Yet 
it could use postgresql and (some) ODBC.

Please send all comments to clisp-devel *and* to me. 
Maybe announce to clisp-users so they get a change to 
try out this stuff?

Regards,
 JH

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>Comment By: Sam Steingold (sds)
Date: 2008-01-28 09:45

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what I meant was "release": patching the clisp cvs head (and uffi) so that
clisp supports uffi ootb.  

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Comment By: Jörg Höhle (hoehle)
Date: 2008-01-28 08:33

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What do you mean with trunk?
a. the ffi-patches-cvs or
b. the whole UFFI package?

b. Could cause package problems, since CFFI includes an UFFI compatibility
layer, which very likely defines an UFFI package also.

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Comment By: Sam Steingold (sds)
Date: 2008-01-27 00:41

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Joerg, is there any hope that you will merge this into the trunk?

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Comment By: Jörg Höhle (hoehle)
Date: 2006-01-24 13:24

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Added uffi.asd for convenience, but you must still load
ffi-patches-cvs before uffi!
However, now you could add this file to the asdf definition,
because ffi-patches-cvs can now be compiled.

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Comment By: Jörg Höhle (hoehle)
Date: 2005-05-20 12:40

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More macros added as I tested some UFFI code (browsing along
cells-gtk, clsql etc.) :pointer-self, :struct-pointer, setf
deref-array, def-union and many others are now supported.

Still, the deref-pointer / (c-ptr xyz) / pointer arithmetic
issue is problematic.

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Comment By: Jörg Höhle (hoehle)
Date: 2004-09-23 12:50

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the updated uffi.lisp now does compile- (well, 
macroexpand)-time instead of run-time UFFI->FFI 
transformations and therefore pedantly checks the types. 
clsql-3.0.4 is better used with this version.

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Comment By: Jörg Höhle (hoehle)
Date: 2004-09-15 13:10

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BTW, I think %cast1 can disappear in favour of a 
foreign-variable constructor function.

Well, I should now talk less and use the few minutes left to 
implement said stuff in foreign.d instead of playing with 
clsql. People, please try it out! People, please try out 
Pascal's UFFI layer!

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