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Re: ffcall

Clark McGrew <mcgrew@ale.physics.sunysb.edu> writes:

> This is a naive question.  Is there any particular reason people seem
> to prefer libffi to ffcall?  

I didn't know about ffcall.  Thanks for the hint, I'll sure check it
out.  Sometime... ;-)

> PPPS: As far as I can see, the only advantage ffcall has to ffi is that
> you can create a callback for C directly in scheme.

That's cool.  Actually, I haven't thought at all about callbacks in
the context of libffi (or ffcall).