Re: [Chicken-users] typedef question

[Felix]

Peter Keller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question about define-foreign-type:
>
> Are these two equivalent?
>
> (define-foreign-type size_t unsigned-int)
> (define-foreign-type size_t "unsigned int")

Yep. But using the former will work properly
when arguments of this type are passed directly
as arguments to foreign functions (for example).
The latter can only be used indirectly (i.e.
when wrapped inside a `pointer'.


cheers,
felix