@@ -15,52 +15,15 @@ (a reentrant combination of vacall and trampoline) Installation instructions: - mkdir make - cd make - ./configure --cache-file=config.cache + ./configure make make check make install - -Note: passind --enable-shared to ./configure has no effect because -it makes no sense to do so: - -1) It is an overkill: libavcall, libvacall, libcallback have less than 1 KB - of executable code (most of the real code is in the header files): - -$ size libavcall.a - text data bss dec hex filename - 420 0 0 420 1a4 avcall.o (ex libavcall.a) - 81 0 0 81 51 structcpy.o (ex libavcall.a) -$ size libvacall.a - text data bss dec hex filename - 365 0 0 365 16d vacall.o (ex libvacall.a) - 203 0 0 203 cb misc.o (ex libvacall.a) - 81 0 0 81 51 structcpy.o (ex libvacall.a) -$ size libcallback.a - text data bss dec hex filename - 379 0 0 379 17b vacall.o (ex libcallback.a) - 203 0 0 203 cb misc.o (ex libcallback.a) - 81 0 0 81 51 structcpy.o (ex libcallback.a) - 287 0 0 287 11f trampoline.o (ex libcallback.a) - -When a shared library is loaded, you spend at least 4 KB for its code, -data and BSS. This is overkill for such a tiny library. - -2) The main function here is compiled from non-PIC assembly language. - I.e. relocations would remain. The GNU linker supports shared libraries - with relocations on x86 systems. But only on x86! - -3) Dynamic compilation breaks callback/trampoline_r self-tests at least - on x86_64-linux (and CLISP FFI too). - This is, of course, a bug in libffcall, but, even if it is fixed, it - will still make no sense to --enable-shared. - Files in this package: Documentation: @@ -76,11 +39,11 @@ callback/* the callback package Installation: configure configuration script - configure.in autoconf-2.60 source for the configuration script + configure.in autoconf-2.10 source for the configuration script autoconf/* auxiliary configuration scripts Makefile.in Makefile master Copyright notice: @@ -95,15 +58,11 @@ on this software. Distribution: -CVS: -$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/libffcall co ffcall - -Bug reports to: - - https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=libffcall +http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/ffcall-1.10.tar.gz +ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/gnu/ffcall-1.10.tar.gz Homepage: - http://www.gnu.org/software/libffcall/ +http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-ffcall.html