[Python-Dev] (ctypes example) libffi embedded in CPython

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 19:05:57 +0100
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > But they are not ctypes. For example, cffi wouldn't be obvious to use
> > > for interfacing with non-C code, since it requires you to write C-like
> > > declarations.
> > 
> > You mean like Fortran? Or what precisely?
> 
> Any toolchain that can generate native code. It can be Fortran, but it
> can also be code generated at runtime without there being any external
> declaration. Having to generate "C declarations" for such code would be
> a distraction.

For instance, you can look at the compiler example that Eli wrote using
llvmlite. It implements a JIT compiler for a toy language. The
JIT-compiled function is then declared and called using a simple ctypes
declaration:

https://github.com/eliben/pykaleidoscope/blob/master/chapter7.py#L937

Regards

Antoine.