Re: [Chicken-users] Memory mapped I/O and CHICKEN ports

[felix winkelmann]

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 20:48:55 +0100, Thomas Chust <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just wondered if there was any clever way to send data from a memory
> mapped file to a CHICKEN output port *whithout* first moving it to a
> buffer using (move-memory! ...)
> 

What you currently do is copy the data into a buffer and
write it then into the port, right?
There is no way to write contents pointed to by a pointer directly,
unless you fetch and write the data explicitly (either by character,
block-wise or in one go).
Could you give some more information? Is the file to big, is the
operation too slow, or is the interface to awkward?


cheers,
felix