Call C++ function pointer from Javascript

Question

Is it possible to pass function pointers from C++ (compiled into Javascript using Emscripten) to directly-written JS? I've found ways of creating function pointers of Javascript functions to pass to C++, but not a way of exposing a function pointer, given a value at runtime in C++ code, to Javascript.

Code-wide, what I'm after is to be able to complete the code snippet below in order to call the function passed as cFunctionPointer where I'm doing the console.log

void passToJs(void (*cFunctionPointer)()) {
  EM_ASM_ARGS({
    // Prints out an integer. Would like to be able to
    // call the function it represents.
    console.log($0);
  }, cFunctionPointer);
}

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:13:59Z

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Found the answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/25584986/1319998. You can use the Runtime.dynCall function:

void passToJs(void (*cFunctionPointer)()) {
  EM_ASM_ARGS({
    Module.Runtime.dynCall('v', $0, []);
  }, cFunctionPointer);
}

The 'v' is the signature of a void function that doesn't take any arguments.

Apparently it supports other signatures, such as 'vii', which is a void function that takes 2 integer arguments. The integer arguments would then have to passed in the array which is the 3rd argument of Runtime.dynCall.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:13

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