Re: [MacPerl] Interfacing XS/C++ code with MacPerl

[Sixten.F.K.Otto.98@alum.dartmouth.org (Sixten F. K. Otto 98)]

--- Chris Nandor wrote:
This forum is OK, but a new one that is being created (mac-perl-porters)
will be even better.  :-)  Watch for details soon.
---

Ah. I had noticed some mention of this in the list archives that I read, but
nothing specific. I will be sure to look out for more information.

---
>For that matter, is it even possible for C/C++ code to maintain its own data
>structures (create and destroy dynamic memory constructs outside of the Perl
>environment)?

[snip] This WOULD be a very good question for comp.lang.perl.moderated, if
you've already looked in the aforementioned perlxs and perlxstut and could not
find it there.
---

Well, what I have read in the XS documentation seems to reflect a desire to
call C functions from Perl, and to glue the parameters and return values. The
brief mention of XS and C++ seems to imply that one can create instances of C++
classes, and call into them from Perl, but how such things as data structures
created by these instances are handled, it does not say. (For that matter,
there is not much attention given to much beyond the bare function interfaces
in any of the docs.)

I will pose this question to the newsgroup and see what I can come up with.

Thanks, Chris.

-= Sixten =-

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