[plt-scheme] (lib "foreign.ss") and vararg C functions

So one could create an "overloaded" printf library that picks up from 
C? -- Matthias


On Oct 7, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> On Oct  7, Richard Cobbe wrote:
>> Is it possible to use (lib "foreign.ss") to call vararg C functions
>> (like printf) from within Scheme?  It would be really nice to say,
>> for example,
>>
>>     (c-printf "%04d" n)
>>
>> from time to time.
>
> One of the limitations of libffi is that each function description is
> fixed (unlike ffcall that was dropped due to its license).  But you
> can define several Scheme-printfs with different arities and types.
>
>
> On Oct  7, Robby Findler wrote:
>> I bet there something that does that in swindle. ...
>
> Surprising, but I never got to it...
>
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