While musing on FFI interfacing issues like C++ name mangling, I found an interesting article "Beautiful Native Libraries" about the other side of the fence of designing a nice library interface. I learnt some things maybe of interest to others - perhaps for pushing upstream into external libraries to ease their use by our FFI. http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/8/18/beautiful-native-libraries/ Some of the ideas seem applicable to maybe one day helping the VM be embeddable in other programs. Also, for the occasional idea of in-Image parsing of C include files, a link to a basic algorithm for macro expansion. http://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20060626/ And while I haven't read the following, it was interesting to skim "Calling conventions for different C++ compilers and operating systems" http://www.agner.org/optimize/calling_conventions.pdf cheers -ben