RE: [Sml-implementers] extensions to SML: Foreign function interface

[Dave B. <da...@ta...>]

At 21:29 17/09/2001, David Matthews wrote:
>Dave,
>Have you looked at the foreign function interface that Nick Chapman did
>for Poly/ML several year ago? (See
>http://www.lfcs.ed.ac.uk/software/polyml/docs/CInterface.html ).  It's
>been used for several projects but particularly the Windows interface
>which has several hundred functions in it.  It works for dynamic
>libraries in Unix or DLLs in Windows and doesn't require the SML
>programmer to write anything but ML.

I haven't looked at it recently, although I think we looked at it when we
were working on the MLWorks FLI.  I'm about to go on holiday, but I'll look
at it when I get back.

Dave.