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From: mike@thumperbellcore.com (Mike A. Caplinger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: CL standard for foreign function interface
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Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 10:40:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 12 10:40:39 1987
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Would a de facto standard for declaring interfaces to foreign functions in
Common Lisp be appropriate?  That is, I want to call some C function
from CL so I declare its arguments and return values, then link it
in to my Lisp incrementally.  I've observed that Lucid, Franz, and Kyoto
Common Lisp all provide this functionality (under Unix, anyway) and that
many people use it, but that it's slightly different from CL to CL and
so the code's all non-portable.  Does anybody else see this as a big
problem?

	Mike Caplinger, mike@bellcore.com