[NTLK] Einstein 64-bit

[Steven Frank]

To be perfectly honest, I'm still a little fuzzy on what ffi actually _does_.  I read the web page, and I'm only slightly less stumped.  :)

If you know, could you explain it to me really simply (and slowly :))?  I understand things like ABIs and stack frames, but I'm just not grokking what ffi's intent is at a basic level.

If it's used by the Ethernet driver, that would explain why I never saw it getting called.  I wasn't using Einstein's network features.

The warning it logs when built for 64-bit is really obtuse (sorry I don't have it written down handy).  When I Googled for the error, I found discussions of it on various mailing lists, but nothing that seemed like a fix.

Other than that one warning from ffi though, Einstein seems to run fine on 64-bit.  Are there any other known issues?

Steven


> On Dec 3, 2014, at 4:25 AM, Morgan Aldridge <morgant at makkintosshu.com> wrote:
> 
> Apologies if I'm way off here, but I' coming from the NEWT/0 side of
> things. Paul Guyot contributed his "Relativity" (calling native methods on
> the host OS from NewtonScript code)  support to NEWT/0 and it uses libffi
> to do that. I'm not sure if Matthias used that at all for his Ethernet card
> emulation (probably not), so it may be something that looks like it's not
> really being used now, but would be a loss for extending packages on the
> Newton OS side to take advantage of features inherent in newer OSes that
> Einstein would be running on.
> 
> 
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