Re: [Chicken-users] Returning non-zero terminated strings from foreign code

[felix winkelmann]

On 3/4/07, Peter Schuller <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Given some C code that malloc:s a buffer and puts some arbitrary data
> (including potentially zeroes) into it, I want to convert that into a Scheme
> string. Is there an idiomatic way to do this?
>
> I had a look at foreign-lambda* to see how c-string return values are handled,
> but it quickly gets pretty involved with Chicken internals that I'm not yet
> ready to tackle...

The simplest solution I can come up with right now is to use
"c-pointer" as result type and "(move-memory! <ptr>
<string-of-the-right-length> <count>)"
the data into a separately allocated string.


cheers,
felix