Support external managed memory #494
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Marking this as draft: I've since made some updates here, which I need to migrate back to this PR: https://github.com/koka-community/std/blob/main/std/cextern.kk |
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By the way, I have a version of the libuv branch, which uses this api, and automatically generated ffi bindings (adapted from dart's |
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I've been thinking a bit about automated generation of C wrappers (along the lines of a port of Dart's ffigen), but of course first we need a way of managing external ffi resources in Koka. After searching in
kklibfor a bit, I found thekk_cptr*functions which don't currently have a corresponding Koka api. Here is an initial Koka api for these functions, allowing us to manage allocated C memory completely from Koka.