C6RunApp and DSP-RPC-POSIX

Now we've looked into how C6RunApp works in general, it's time to bring DSP-RPC-POSIX into the picture. Although the project builds largely on top of C6RunApp in general, there are two keywords in the name which hint into a different direction:

• RPC: the project aims to bring a fully functional RPC (Remote Procedure Call) framework into the picture in the sense that GPP-side procedures are remote procedures when viewed from the DSP side. In other words, the DSP will be able to call any GPP-side function using this component. Note that there already exists a limited form of RPC in the existing C6RunApp structure, but only for the file system access calls.
• POSIX: using the RPC component, the GPP-side POSIX library will be made accessible from the DSP side.

At this point, the question "but the RTS lib already provides POSIX functionality! why's a RPC POSIX layer necessary?" may come up. These were my primary reasons for going in this direction while writing my project proposal:

• being able to offer the already stable GPP-side POSIX libraries with no extra effort required
• have greater flexibility for expansion since it can eventually be used to call any GPP-side function, such as writing to the frame buffer or user-defined functions.
• although the DSP is an indeed powerful processor it is not meant for general computing, so it's not practical for, for example, string processing while formatting printf strings - this is a task better done by the GPP

Right now, I'm still experimenting with RPC-related tasks such as packing ("marshalling") and extracting ("unmarshalling") a variable number of arguments into/out of messages and dynamic loading, but the first wrappers should be appearing quite soon :)