Re: low-level of UFFI (was: CLISP support)

Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril wrote:

> Actually I'm looking for a specification minilanguage. I discovered
> I need separate :in and :out length parameter recognition (one is size
> of array, another is how many actual elements), while the form used
> most of the time is that both collapse, which should be easily
> expressible.
> [...]

> See: no mucking around with allocate-foreign-stuff, convert-string
> and such. In many cases c-gethostname is already usable as is and
? doesn't need to be wrapped. In some sense, the description language is
> powerful enough to do most wrapping for you.
> [...]
> So what I'm calling for is even more macrology :)

There's no doubt that UFFI2 would resemble this. Unknown, though, is
the timeframe when UFFI2 will be specified and implemented.

 
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