[Chicken-users] Ref foreign type.

[Nicholas \"Indy\" Ray]

I've been trying to use the "ref" FFI type (as documented here: http://chicken.wiki.br/man/4/Foreign%20type%20specifiers#(ref TYPE) ) with no success. Here is an example of my usage:

(print
   ((foreign-lambda* bool (((ref char) mC))
     "C_return(mC == 'c');")
   #\c))

compiling this with csc from Chicken 4 gives me the error: 

Error: illegal foreign type `ref'

I find this odd as in c-backend.scm:1170 in foreign-type-declaration this code exists:

((and (= 2 len)
(eq? 'ref (car type)))
(foreign-type-declaration (cadr type) (string-append "&" target)) )

Implying that ref should still be supported.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Indy