[erlang-questions] idea: Erlang FFI: callbacks and memory management

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Alceste Scalas <alceste@REDACTED> writes:

> I think it depends on my previous questions: is it possible to execute
> an Erlang fun() from within a BIF, and get its return term?  How?

It is currently not possible to execute a fun from a BIF and return to the BIF.

There is, however, an internal mechanism to make a tail-recursive call
to Erlang code from a BIF. The called Erlang code could in turn make a call
to another BIF.

/Bjorn
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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB