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From: george@cis.ohio-state.edu (George M. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: calling perl from C
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.172948.655@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 17:29:48 GMT
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../usub/README in the 4.003 distribtuion says

> There is currently no official way to call a Perl routine back from C,
> but we're working on it.  It might be easiest to fake up a call to do_eval()
> or do_subr().  This is not for the faint of heart.  If you come up with
> such a glue routine, I'll be glad to add it into the distribution.

...so before I go spending a lot of time, and possibly fainting a few times,
I thought I would check with people here to see if anyone has already
come up with some way of calling perl routines from C.  I'd even welcome
pointers to unofficial mechanisims and/or pointers on how to "fake up a call"
(I've looked at do_eval and friends enough to know that I could realy stand
a few pointers as to what's going on with the internal stack handling, etc.)

Curious,
---George
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