On Tuesday, January 9th, 1996 - Evan Langlois wrote:
 
EL>  I actually don't have any good examples - I'd have to look them up.
EL>  Here is an example - this is actually part of the 'miniperl' C code.
EL>  It contains the code to start up the interpretter and do its thing,
EL>  wind up adding most (or maybe even all) of PERL into your C code,
EL> #include "EXTERN.h"
EL> #include "perl.h"
EL> static void xs_init _((void));
EL> static PerlInterpreter *my_perl;
EL> int main(argc, argv, env)
EL> int argc;char **argv;char **env;
EL> {
EL>     int exitstatus;
EL>         perl_construct( my_perl );    }
EL>     perl_destruct( my_perl );
EL>     perl_free( my_perl );
EL>     exit( exitstatus );
EL> }
 
I'd say that's a pretty good example!  :-)
 
EL> via this XSUB
EL>     void    Call_fred()
EL>         CODE:
EL> PUSHMARK(sp) ;                perl_call_pv("fred", G_DISCARD|G_NOARGS)
EL> ;
EL>         fprintf(stderr, "back in Call_fred\n") ;
EL> I wish I knew how the above works, as you can see, it defined some
EL> C stuff, but yet, it isn't C (note the lack of braces!).  There are
 
If it isn't C and it isn't PERL, what the heck is it???
 
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