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From: mark@mbunix.mitre.org (Cimini)
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Subject: Re: C <---> LISP foreign function interface
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Date: 6 Dec 89 12:25:26 GMT
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In article <1797@accuvax.nwu.edu> sandell@ferret.ils.nwu.edu (Greg Sandell) writes:
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>What facilities exist in Common Lisp to call compliled code written
>in foreign languages?  Specificially, I would like to know how to
>have some C code run within LISP.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Greg Sandell
>

Greg,

	Sun provides extensions to Common LISP int the area of foreign
function interfaces.  There are two ways to run a foreign program: 1)
the LISP code includes the (in this case) C .o code into its image and calls
the functions, 2) LISp launches a runable program and a communication path is 
set-up between the two processes.  This of course is a watered down explaination
for more details see some Sun documentation.



						Mark

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