Re: [xplc-general] C binding implementations

[Avery P. <ape...@ni...>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:55:32AM -0400, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:

> There *is* a platform dependent part that will need to be built
> eventually, which is a foreign function call layer, so that we can build
> stack frames and call into interfaces (so that we can call into any XPLC
> interfaces from scripting languages), as well as provide a proxy
> interface that will disassemble it's stack frames (so that scripting
> languages can implement XPLC interfaces). This layer could be shared by
> any scripting language binding. See Mozilla's xptcall:
> 
> http://www.mozilla.org/scriptable/xptcall-faq.html

My xplcidl actually implements this in a different way, avoiding the
horrible pain of manipulating stack frames and other stuff... but
potentially with a performance penalty.  (Hey, you're in a scripting
language, how much worse can it be?)

Have fun,

Avery