Re: Introspection API

[Dave Benson <daveb idealab com>]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:12:30PM -0500, John Ehresman wrote:
> 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.

yeah, portability.

it's not very encouraging that everyone seems to adopt
their own local copy of libffi.  it means trying out
glib on new platforms is going to be a pain, subject to
bugs, etc.  by contrast, generating marshallers is totally
portable, and we do it anyways, i believe, for signals.

- dave