>>>> Erick Gallesio <eg_at_unice.fr> wrote:
> I've no implemented structures, because alignment problem make all the
> stuff very complicated. For now, if you want to do such a call you
> have two possibilities in such a case:
> - use pointers in the C lib (just say that the object is a
> void *). The problem is that if you don't have the source of the
> library, you need to write a wrapper which transform a pointer to the
> structure. In this case, this is probably more efficient to make
> an ad-hoc interface and avoid the FFI extra cost.
That is what I did. What is the extra cost involved with the FFI?
> - since here the structure is a simple one, if you have a
> function such as "int f(unit x)", you can declare it in scheme as it
> is was a "int f(int id, int serial)"; The problem is that it
> de-structure your object, which is probably not suitable and it depend
> of the way structures are ordered, which is very machine specific.
Actually, this was for a GDBM interface that I had hoped to do
entirely in the FFI (which I did after writing a few wrappers).
My thanks to Thomas Buerger for sending me his version of a GDBM
interface. It wasn't quite what I was looking for so I rolled my own.
-Dave
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Received on Mon Dec 28 1998 - 17:09:08 CET