On 13 April 2011 22:39, Mariano Martinez Peck <
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> Hi folks, I am trying to understand them. What I understood so that is that from SLANG we can say:
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> <export: true> ----> it will add the keyword EXPORT(sqInt) functXX();
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> <api> ----> it WONT put the static prefix ->> (sqInt) funcXXX()
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> if nothing is said -> it puts the static ->> static (sqInt) functXXX()
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> If I understood correctly, static functions are not callable outside of the C file they are defined in. So, if you don't put static, then they are callable.
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> I am correct with all that ?
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I think yes. But i'm not sure about <api> since it was introduced in
Cog and i haven't time to check what exactly it does.
> So..first question, why we need the this ? when I should declare a function/method as API ? is it possible that this is when plugins need to call a function from the VM ?
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> Second, when should I need to declare a method/function as EXPORT ? Are there any other reason that being able to call them from GDB ?
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> Third, why there are methods which do not put the <export: true> but in fact are added in #requiredMethodNames and hence exported. Why they cannot have the <export: true> instead of being hardcoded there?
to prevent them from being fully inlined and removed from source code
as a separate function.
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> Thanks a lot in advance,
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