[Chicken-users] FFI Question

[Heath Johns]

Hey there, nice scheme you've got here folks :)

I've got a noob question: Why does this segfault?  Should I be doing
this differently?  I'm using 2.3 stable on linux...

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#>
char* nothing();

void bob()
{
   printf("%p\n", nothing());
}
<#


(foreign-safe-wrapper c-string "nothing" ()
 (lambda () #f))

((foreign-safe-lambda void "bob"))

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For context's sake, I (like the fellow not so long ago) am extending
the readline support.  I've got paren bouncing working perfectly, now
I'm on to tab-completion.  I can't seem to send a NULL back from the
completion callback function without it crashing (sending a string
works fine).


Also, I think I may have found an unrelated bug.  It seems that the
optimizer takes out arguments from lambdas if they're not being used,
and this doesn't agree with callbacks.  I was using
foreign-safe-wrapper like so:

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(foreign-safe-wrapper void "zoot" (int int)
 (lambda (one two)
   (display one)))

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And whenever I tried to call zoot from C I'd get "Error: bad argument
count - received 2 but expected 1: #<procedure>".  Works fine if you
put a (display two) in there though.

I see that there is a very similar bug in the changelog at Mon Jan 24
20:55:07 CET 2005 for version 2.2.  It seems likely that they are
related...


Heath Johns