Call a function in a shared library: Difference between revisions
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The argument of <code>uname</code> is <code>(ptr-out utsname)</code>. The semantics of <code>ptr-out</code> in this situation is that FFI prepares a C version of the Lisp structure, but doesn't perform any conversions from Lisp to initialize it. This not only saves CPU cycles, but allows us to use a blank structure produced by <code>(new utsname)</code> all of whose slots are <code>nil</code> and so wouldn't convert to C character arrays anyway! The function is called, and then conversions out of the structure to the Lisp structure take place, filling its slots with string values.
The <code>nil</code> argument in the <code>with-dyn-lib</code> macro causes the underlying implementation to call <code>dlopen(NULL)</code> to get access to the dynamic symbols available in the executable. We can use the name of a shared library instead, or a handle from TXR's <code>dlopen</code> library function.
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