get-entry-point

Arguments: name

This function returns two values. The first is the entry point for name, which must be a string. nil is returned if name does not have an entry point.

The second returned value is the handle of the .so/.sl/.dll/.dylib library in which the symbol was found.

For example, "aclmalloc" is the name of the C function called by aclmalloc. Using this function, we find its entry point is 1872778976 and the handle of its library is 4. Using get-shared-library-handle and get-shared-library-name, we find it is in the Allegro CL shared library called (on this machine and in this run) "libacli61pf4.so" (the name you see will be different).

cl-user(101): (ff:get-entry-point "aclmalloc")
1872778976
4
cl-user(102): (get-shared-library-handle)
4
cl-user(103): (get-shared-library-name)
"libacli61pf4.so"
cl-user(104): 

See ftype.htm for information on foreign types in Allegro CL and foreign-functions.htm for general information on foreign functions in Allegro CL.

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