[retroforth] Re: RetroForth 8.0
- From: Charles Childers <charles.childers@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: RetroForth Mailing List <retroforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 08:34:40 -0500
The new FFI design is much simpler than the one in 7.x
In 7.x we have things like:
" kernel32.dll" LoadLibraryAs KERNEL32
KERNEL32 " GetStdHandle" MapFunctionAs GetStdHandle
-11 1 GetStdHandle invoke constant StdOut
In 8.0, this is replaced by:
from kernel32.dll
1 import GetStdHandle
-11 GetStdHandle constant StdOut
There's also a "cimport" word that imports functions using libc
calling conventions. Overall this feels cleaner to me. Any thoughts?
--
Charles
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