Re: [NewIO-developers] Importing API's into NewIO

[Chris N. <cny...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Jason Reynolds <ja...@ne...> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Something I've realized about the current source tree is that it would be
> easy (using the msg_send_[TYPE] functions and the header files to implement
> functions) to write a parser to grab API's out of compiled binaries (ELF,
> PE, etc) and parse them into usable NewIO C code to add functionality to the
> client.  You could really just prefix all the functions with _nio_[LIBNAME]
> or something and add a switch to define I/O types (SDL, AGAR, OpenGL)
> efficiently.
>
> Automated API imports can be difficult to actually release as a feature
> though, and I haven't found a decent ELF parsing library (objdump's doesn't
> actually look very nice).
> Could definately make porting code a might bit simpler, though.  Thoughts?

That is an interesting idea. There must be a huge number of APIs out
in the wild though right?

Chris

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