Will Espruino support FFI(libffi)

Posted on Sat 25th, March 2017

• #1

Aifer

Some times we need c functions, and jswrap method needs rewrite the c module less or more. FFI?
• #2

Gordon

No, I'm afraid it's not going to. When I looked at it, it seemed way too heavyweight - and I'm also not convinced that ARM Thumb is supported?

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by rewrite, because you can use totally standard C functions (as long as they don't have overly complicated arguments). If someone wrote a script for it then a totally standard C file could be parsed and added without modification - the only issue comes when you try and access arrays/pointers, but you'll have problems with that anyway because of the way Espruino works to make the most of available memory.

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