Re: Dynamic FFI vs Static FFI (was Re: About Guile crypto support)

[Nala Ginrut]

On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 18:21 +1100, William ML Leslie wrote:
> On 13 February 2013 05:24, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Okay, but here I'm using "Static FFI" to mean something very different
> > than the C API: I'm talking about a pure scheme-based API that would be
> > quite similar to the API our current dynamic FFI, except that a lot of
> > the work would be done at compilation time (probably during macro
> > expansion).
> 
> Maybe even something like LuaJIT FFI or python's CFFI - that can parse
> C code at compile time to produce the data structures for the dynamic
> FFI?
> 

I think that would be better. 
The reason why I don't use FFI is that we lack of convenient C struct
parsing mechanism. Though it's not so hard to implement, designing
proper APIs maybe take sometime. 
Anyway, I'd like to see a prototype, or maybe I could provide a naive
one. ;-)