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Wrapping var_args, or C ... in ocaml?

Guillaume Yziquel
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Date:	2010-02-15 (10:15)
From:	Florent Monnier <fmonnier@l...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Wrapping var_args, or C ... in ocaml?

Le dimanche 14 fÃ©vrier 2010 23:46:10, Guillaume Yziquel a Ã©crit :
> I mean, it seems that varargs means on the receiving end "the number of 
> arguments you'r giving me, as a function, is not limited", whereas on 
> the sending end, you hard-code the number of arguments in your C code.
> 
> Is there a way to map an OCaml list to an ellipsis? Or is it a C
>  limitation?

Yes, as long as I know, for this you should use these kind of tools:

http://sourceware.org/libffi/
http://www.gnu.org/software/libffcall/
http://www.nongnu.org/cinvoke/
http://dyncall.org/


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