Re: [Chicken-users] Multiple return values

[felix]

Peter Keller wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:39:22PM +0200, felix wrote:
>
> > You mean for locations? Unfortunately we can not properly
> > compute the size of a struct. Too many factors come into
> > play, like struct-alignment, etc. But what we need is some
> > kind of `sizeof' operator...
>
>
> I don't understand this paragraph.
>
> Are you talking about C structs, or records as defined by define-record
> in chicken? Cause sizeof() works just fine on C structs.

C-structs. Chicken (currently) has to know the size of
objects passed to (or received from) foreign code *AT
COMPILE TIME*. So, we can't use sizeof() here. The storage
for locations currently works also with distinct values
computed at compile-time. But that (and only that) can perhaps
be addressed in the future.


cheers,
felix