[mercury-users] Calling Mercury from C

[Michael Day]

Hi,

Is there a reliable way of calling a Mercury closure from C?

At the moment, I create a Mercury forwarding predicate, export it, and 
call *that* from C, passing the closure that I wish to call.

eg.

:- pred callback(pred(...), args).
:- mode callback(pred(...), modes) is det.

callback(Pred, ...) :- Pred(...).

:- pragma export(callback(...), "callback").

Is there a way I can avoid this? I tried casting the closure directly to 
the right kind of function pointer and calling that, but it crashed.

Any tips? :)

Michael Day

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