Re: [Chicken-users] foreign: Why is passing structs as arguments and return-types not supported?

[Alaric Snell-Pym]

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On 02/29/2012 03:18 PM, Kristian Lein-Mathisen wrote:

> Since struct-by-value is so central in both of these libraries, manually
> writing wrapper-code would take too long. I am unsure of where to go from
> here, but I suppose my options are:
>
> - Modify `foreign` to support struct-by-value
> - Modify `chicken-bind` to automatically write wrapper-code for
> struct-by-value
> - Write a script that re-parses the generated scheme-binding and inserts
> the wrappers

> Any thoughts on how to pursue this?

I would think that the first option is slightly neater, as it would then
apply to users of foreign other than via chicken-bind, but it might be
easier to do in chicken-bind! The last option looks ugly.


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