[cffi-devel] bits from a new tutorial

[Luís Oliveira]

On 2005-dec-22, at 13:15, Martin Simmons wrote:
> No, LispWorks doesn't support that kind of call with random run- 
> time types.
> The problem is that some of the low level calling conventions are  
> very baroque
> in which registers they use to pass the arguments, so supporting a  
> call
> pattern with run-time types is too complicated.

Actually, cffi:foreign-funcall's type arguments aren't evaluated.  
Does this help?

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