Mercurial > pub > dyncall > dyncall

annotate doc/Description.txt @ 229:0ce6beba55df

Find changesets by keywords (author, files, the commit message), revision number or hash, or revset expression.
- dynload_windows.c cosmetics
author Tassilo Philipp
date Sun, 16 Apr 2017 14:55:17 +0200
parents 3e629dc19168
children
Ignore whitespace changes - Everywhere: Within whitespace: At end of lines:
rev   line source
0
3e629dc19168 initial from svn dyncall-1745
Daniel Adler
parents:
diff changeset
1 DynCall Project
3e629dc19168 initial from svn dyncall-1745
Daniel Adler
parents:
diff changeset
2
3e629dc19168 initial from svn dyncall-1745
Daniel Adler
parents:
diff changeset
3 The dyncall library encapsulates architecture-, OS- and compiler-specific function call semantics in a virtual "bind argument parameters from left to right and then call" interface allowing programmers to call C functions in a completely dynamic manner. In other words, instead of calling a function directly, the dyncall library provides a mechanism to push the function parameters manually and to issue the call afterwards.
3e629dc19168 initial from svn dyncall-1745
Daniel Adler
parents:
diff changeset
4 This means, that a program can determine at runtime what function to call, and what parameters to pass to it. The library is written in C and assembly and provides a very simple C interface to program against.
3e629dc19168 initial from svn dyncall-1745
Daniel Adler
parents:
diff changeset
5
3e629dc19168 initial from svn dyncall-1745
Daniel Adler
parents:
diff changeset
6 The library comes in very handy to power flexible message systems, dynamic function call dispatch mechanisms, closure implementations or even to bridge different programming languages.
3e629dc19168 initial from svn dyncall-1745
Daniel Adler
parents:
diff changeset
7 When it comes to language bindings, the dyncall library provides a clean and portable C interface to dynamically issue calls to foreign code using small call kernels written in assembly. Instead of providing code for every bridged function call, which unnecessarily results in code bloat, only a couple of instructions are used to invoke every possible call.