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From: warner@scubed.com (Ken Warner)
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Subject: Re: C to Smalltalk
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Date: 24 Aug 90 15:44:20 GMT
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In article <81923@aerospace.AERO.ORG> obrien@aerospace.aero.org (Michael O'Brien) writes:
>
>In article <1780@abvax.UUCP>, jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker) writes:
>|> I know this is a naive question, but is it possible to
>|> call smalltalk methods from C using either the Digitalk
>|> or Park Place products ?
>
>	Goodness knows what ParcPlace has planned for the future - they
>are enough of a business now not to let much out - but in the current
>release it's definitely impossible.  

------- THIS IS NOT A FLAME ----------

I am curious.  What sort of things did you (Jack) want to do that you feel are
best done in this way.  And why could you not go the "other" way by calling C
functions via primitives from Smalltalk?  

One wild blue approach to calling Smalltalk from C (just off the top of my 
early morning head) would be to supply a set of entry points into a VM by
installing a set of of primitives.  Then link the VM into a C object.  Pretty
wild huh?  I wonder what it would take to do this. I have a real strong feeling
that this can't be done with the current VM.  It's just a thought for the sake 
of brain-storming.

Ken Warner