[Python-modules-team] Bug#782275: pre-parsed cffi runtime data structures

[Stefano Rivera]

Control: tag -1 upstream

Hi Glyph (2015.04.13_23:46:18_-0400)
> Right now, cffi uses pycparser to parse the declarations for two reasons:
> 
> 1. to generate the .c file which it then compiles, at build time
> 2. to generate the run-time metadata it uses to invoke that library, at run time

Yep. The plan is to serialize the run-time metadata into something at
build time, in cffi 1.0.

Armin is working on this:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/python-cffi/DKfxxcMmaGw

SR

-- 
Stefano Rivera
  http://tumbleweed.org.za/
  +1 415 683 3272