Should make janet a bit easier to use. Also changes the
header to not expose the size of native mutexes and rwlocks, except
with janet_os_mutex_size and janet_os_rwlock_size.
The ffi module is useful even when true ffi calls
are not yet implemented. This lets the ffi be enabled
on any architecture, albeit with a degraded feature set
where calling conventions are not implemented.
native-close, raw-native and native-lookup have become
ffi/close, ffi/native, and ffi/lookup instead.
The new ffi module will be useful for any architecture even if we don't
support making calls to certain functions. We can simple add a
do-nothing calling convetion that panics on call. ffi/read and ffi/write
are useful in their own right.
TODO:
- struct return values
- support for unions in signatures
- more testing
- complex types
- packed structs
- writing structs to buffers (useful and we have most of the machinery).
Add support for integer return and floating point return variants, as
well as arguments on the stack. Start flushing out struct arguments.
Still needed:
- structs (packed and unpacked)
- complex numbers
- long doubles
- MASM alternative for windows (you can technically use sysv abi on
windows)
- more calling conventions.
FFI may be best implemented as an external library
(libffi has incompatible license to Janet) or as code
that takes void * and wraps then into Janet C functions
given a function signature. Either way, we need to some way
to load symbols from arbitrary dynamic libraries.
For to and thru, we need to restore eveytime through the loop since rules need
run with the right captures on the stack, especially if they have any
sort of backrefs.
While generally we are not in the business of making a very chatty
compiler, this is a simple improvement that involves compiling
metadata before the binding, as well as adding a suggestion for `defn`
in case the compiler encounters an unexpected tuple.
Added some backticks around code in docstrings to distinguish them from prose.
Light editing to `table/raw-get`. Is my change there correct? (t --> the key)
