From: Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...>
Date: 2008-11-03T18:26:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FFI 0.1.1 (Foreign Function Interface) for Ruby 1.8.6/7	and 1.9

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 08:16:39AM +0900, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> The JRuby team is proud to announce the release of FFI for Ruby 1.8.6/7  
> and 1.9!
>
> FFI (gem install ffi) is a library for programmatically loading dynamic  
> libraries, binding functions within them, and calling those functions  
> from Ruby code. Here's a quick sample of binding and calling the getpid  
> C library function:

Interesting. On what kind of architectures is the binding part working ? I'm
using dyncall to do the actual interfacing work (http://www.dyncall.org/) in a
DL-replacement library, but my problem is that dyncall does not like Linux-PPC.
What are you using on your side ?

Sylvain