Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken C interface

[Dan Leslie]

Oh dear!

Well, it works and I haven't had problems. What's the correct way to go 
about this?

-Dan

On 6/5/2013 2:36 PM, Felix wrote:
> From: Dan Leslie <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken C interface
> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:47:45 -0700
>
> > I do this a fair bit in the Allegro egg.
> >
> > Here's an example:
> > https://github.com/dleslie/allegro-egg/blob/985ca2ceef0f5b4028af3f97729f13cba2976fe5/color.scm
> >
> > Basically, use C_alloc to allocate the memory required to host both
> > the List structure and the data it is to contain, then use the C_list
> > macro to patch it all together.
> Note that this code is not correct: C_alloc allocates on the C stack and the
> data will be invalid once the function returns (Sorry). If this works, then
> it is just coincidental!
>
>
> cheers,
> felix