--- "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think you are right that Aldor should probably generate the > defentry but foreign language interface is still not that > standard in lisp, so what Aldor does might not be too portable. > Since the current versiono of open source Axiom uses gcl, the > foreign call mechanism would have to be compatible with this.
GCL is actually at a bit of a disadvantage here, at least from a standards point of view. CFFI is becoming the "de-facto" standard Lisp FFI, or at least is doing better at it than any previous effort. GCL doesn't yet support CFFI - I'm not sure if it requires ANSI to have a hope of functioning but I wouldn't be surprised. An interesting aside is the SWIG tool can apparently be used to generate CFFI bindings for some libraries - http://www.swig.org/ I don't know if this is particularly helpful to Axiom, but it is certainly an interesting option to have available. Cheers, CY __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
