Re: [Chicken-users] How does Chicken know the # of arguments to a function

[Joel Reymont]

> felix winkelmann wrote:

>Yes, that's correct (and procedures that expect a dotted argument list
>simply use stdarg functionality)
>
> So the only requirement for calls to Chicken-generated
>functions is cdecl calling convention.

A bit of a background on my original question... 

SWIG seems to register a wrapper for overloaded functions that takes a
variable number of arguments. For some reason, though, if the overloaded
functions take a different number of arguments (say, 2 and 4) then I
cannot call the function with the lesser number of arguments since
Chicken complains. Chicken appears to only know about the 4 arguments and
not know that I can pass 2. 

I understand now that this is not a Chicken matter but I could not figure
out where SWIG tells Chicken about the 4 arguments :-(. I figured out now
that the TinyCLOS code generated by SWIG only generates the Chicken code
with the 4 arguments, like this:

(define-method (add (self <Container>) (widget <Widget>) x y)
  ((vector-ref swig-init-return 10) (slot-ref self 'swig-this) (slot-ref
widget 'swig-this) x y)) 

and does not specialize add (specialize is the right term?) for 2 arguments.

I'll repost to the SWIG list.

    Thanks, Joel

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