Re: DSO-style FFI

[Stefan Monnier]

> This approach seems very weird to me.

Yup.

> I don't understand why it is preferable to a libffi-based FFI.

I don't claim it's a better solution, really.  I just don't see anny
movement towards providing libffi support (other than people saying we
should do it).

I think the reason is that I don't know anyone who's willing/able to add
libffi support to Emacs and write the corresponding code to link to
(say) libgnutls.

Whereas the path I suggest only involves steps which I'm pretty sure
many people here can do without much trouble.

Stefan> One issue will be compatibility of various kinds of dl_open
Stefan> mechanisms on various OSes, but you should find lots of help for
Stefan> that here, so the first version can focus on supporting only
Stefan> GNU/Linux.
> GNU already has libltdl.

See, "you should find lots of help for that here".


        Stefan