annotate R/rdyncall/TODO @ 59:2725de59454a

- fixed potentially uninitialized ptr - added todo item to release GIL under certain circumstances
author Tassilo Philipp
date Tue, 22 Jun 2021 18:49:02 +0200
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1 TODO:
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2 - update manual
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3 - document new dynports
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4 - check signature format markup (.dyncall)
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6 - updates from dyncall (compare svn 1284 -> 1381)
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7 - name mangling R <-> C ... exchange the first '_' in C -> '.' in R.
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8 - feature: support for function pointers arguments,
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9 if R closure is passed, auto wrap function a callback object
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10 the callback object is appended in a global list
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11 - bugfix for using callconv prefixes via .dyncall and not .dyncall.*.
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12 using a different callvm for .dyncall that may be setup via prefixes and
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13 resets to default always.
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14 - test R build on solaris and sparc(64).
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15 - document win32 expat binary installation
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16 - callbacks should fail with "not yet implemented" on unsupported platforms
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17 - use raw vectors for 1-to-1 bit encoding of values e.g. raw(8) for (u)int64 values
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18 - handling of Csingle attribute on double vectors
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19 - character encoding support, R supports UTF-8.
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20 - Fortran calling conventions
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21 - attr("struct") -> attr("CType")
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22 - parseStructInfos -> cstruct
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23 - parseUnionInfos -> cunion
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24 - .dyncall typed pointer
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25 - as.struct -> as.ctype
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26 - new.struct -> cdata
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27 - new.callback -> cfunction
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28 - planed dynports:glut, curl, openal
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30 BUGS:
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31 - OpenBSD 4.8/amd64: SDL failed due to pthread.
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32 R version on OpenBSD does not provide a shared R library, thus
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33 the symbols are not resolvable.
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34 Additional Test for resolving self:
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35 While .dynsym(as.extptr(NULL), "R_ShowMessage") works on Mac OS X, it fails on OpenBSD.
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36 - demo(ttf) failed on Mac OS X 10.6
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