Re: [Chicken-users] foreign-lambda*

[Nicolas Pelletier]

Tony Garnock-Jones <address@hidden> writes:

> Nicolas Pelletier wrote:
> > The  reason  I can  break  the  126 parameters  limit  is  I am  using
> > foreign-lambda* to fill  in huge C structures, some  of them including
> > big tables of other structures...  and every field therein must get an
> > init value.
> 
> You could pass in a list of values, and do the conversion to C data on
> the C side (using the macro definitions from runtime.h).

I think  I'll go  towards a mix  of this  solution and the  libffi one
Felix suggested, depending  on the shape of the C  structure I need to
fill in. The tcc egg looks very promising, but my code needs to run on
a sparc, where tcc does not seem to be available.

Thank you for this suggestion.

-- 
Nicolas