OS X Externals

[Dar Scott]

On Oct 13, 2004, at 10:41 AM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:

> That looks doable, but I would have preferred to have the value 
> returned by the function (as a return value).  I guess I will use (the 
> below) unless someone could tell me how to provide a binary return 
> value?

Because of this limitation (and others, such as the 64K limit), I now 
make my externals provide helper functions for a library that has the 
interface I want.  Since externals are associated with a stack, this 
works OK.

I have proposed a couple backward compatible binary interfaces for 
external interface inhancement, but I don't expect anything to happen 
along this line.  (On the other hand, I have been Rip Van Winkle for a 
couple months, so what do I know?)

Dar

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