[Gambas-devel] 64 bits branch merge done

[Daniel Campos]

Hi Benoit:

Now that you're using a backend for external calls, could you
consideer adding support for C structures handling? I had this feature
in my old gb.api component from which you extracted the original API
code, and now with gambas alone It's difficult to manage external
calls when you have to fill or read values from structures passed to
functions, i think this could be quite interesting for many people -
or If you have documentation about that backend and you want the
structure support in an external component, I can do that, and I would
like add support for callbacks too, which are quite used in libraries.

So far I found not information about libffi in Google... :-(

Daniel


2008/1/18, Benoit Minisini <gambas at ...1...>:
> On vendredi 18 janvier 2008, José Luis Redrejo wrote:
> > 2008/1/18, Benoit Minisini <gambas at ...1...>:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The merge has been done. We went back to:
> > >
> > > * /trunk, that is the next 3.0 version.
> > >
> > > * /branches/2.0, that is the next 2.1 version.
> > >
> > > So, from now, if you have to do your 64 bits fixes both in /trunk and
> > > in /branches/2.0.
> > >
> > > Everyone is invited to test the /branches/2.0 on their 64 bits and 32
> > > bits system (because 64 bits changes can break the old code), and report
> > > any problem!
> > >
> > > Regards,
> >
> > Benoît, do you think it makes sense prepare new packages for the  new merge
> > and allow Debian machines build the code in all the architectures? If I do
> > it and it fails, reversing to i386 only will take some protocols and time,
> > but doing it will let more users test it in different archs.
> > Also, in the past I checked there were problems compiling gambas 1.0 in
> > powerpc because of endianess isues, do you think this issues might have
> > been fixed with the modifications for 64 bits?.
> > And latest, but not least, if you think that packaging the merged version
> > is a good idea, maybe you should officially release it as 2.0.1 or similar
> > and more distros will do the same...
> >
> > Regards.
> > José L.
>
> I'd like a few user testing all the examples, the IDE and the database manager
> before releasing the version (2.1, not 2.0.1). I can't do these tests myself
> at the moment.
>
> As for the endianess issues, the 64 bits port won't change them, this is an
> orthogonal problem.
>
> But it is just a matter of giving me a full ssh access to a big-endian OS so
> that I can debug. Rob Kudla did that with its 64 bits Ubuntu system, and it
> speeded up things.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoit Minisini
>
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