OS X Externals

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

What I just finished doing is creating a small function in Transcript 
which acts as a wrapper for the C function.  The C function returns the 
value to the local variable in the Transcript function, which returns 
the value to the caller in the program.

Thank you everyone, this is working much better now.  Excellent!

On Oct 13, 2004, at 1:00 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

>
> 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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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
$



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