On Sunday 04 November 2007 06:00:01 Ronald Blaschke wrote: > Parrot currently uses indirect DLL linkage, which means that exported > data, including PMCNULL, used by PMC_IS_NULL, can not be accessed. > Attached patch introduces a function PMC_is_null which should be used > instead. > An alternative solution would be to use direct DLL linkage, but this > would require more work (i.e., get __declspec(dllexport/dllimport) right). > > What do you guys think? (Should it be possible to use data exported > by libparrot?) > > Changed Files: > src/pmc.c > include/parrot/pmc.h > t/src/compiler.t
This seems sensible to me. For the sake of isomorphism, we could add a #define PMC_IS_NULL PMC_is_null to the external API, so that people copying code from core to extensions would have an easier time. -- c
