Dave Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:12:30PM -0500, John Ehresman wrote: >> Dave Benson wrote: >> >a small c program to generate GValue marshallers from the metadata >> >seems pretty straightforward. such marshallers should probably >> >be compiled at the same time as the metadata... i think. >> >> Yes, but what's the advantage of using compiled marshallers over using >> libffi? Are you concerned about portability? I wonder if mozilla uses >> libffi or if they have their own mechanism for foreign calls. > > yeah, portability. > > it's not very encouraging that everyone seems to adopt > their own local copy of libffi. it means trying out > glib on new platforms is going to be a pain, subject to > bugs, etc. by contrast, generating marshallers is totally > portable, and we do it anyways, i believe, for signals. > FWIW, I have a version (checked out from gcc CVS some time ago, updated at irregular intervals) of libffi in my arch repository[0]. I'd gladly accept patches that e.g. implement MSVC support. By now, the only changes are that it's broken out of the gcc tree and compilable on its own.
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