Re: Mike Pall's standalone FFI: a dream?

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 5/12/2011 3:32 PM, CrazyButcher wrote:
> There is a nice preprocessor (although not fully c compliant) inside
> http://icculus.org/mojoshader/ so one could run strings trhough that
> prior handing to ffi.cdef
[snip snip]

Someone did mention recently on the list that he was writing a C 
preprocessor. I wonder what came of that...

A C preprocessor in Lua (with most of the useful bits) comes up to 
around a 15-20KB stripped binary chunk I think. The trouble with 
writing a C preprocessor is getting it to run all the examples at 
the end of section 6.10.3 in the C std doc.

Agree that a cut-down preprocessor might be a good direction to 
go, depending on your requirements. tolua/tolua++ has something 
like that too.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia