Re: Introspection API

John Ehresman <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:12:30 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.gtk+.devel.general,gmane.comp.gnome.language-bindings
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

John