Re: [Chicken-users] more 'foreign' questions

[Kon Lovett]

(gotta flight coming up so dashing but hth)

probably need to use the length for make-blob & then move-memory! from pointer 
to the alloc’ed blob

see (chicken memory)

> On Mar 27, 2019, at 12:14 PM, Christoph Lange <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> i haven’t used the bind egg  but the documentation "General Operation” 
> section beginining with "Structure and union definitions …” seems relevant.
> 
> Haha, yes, thanks. Finding the relevant parts of the docs seems to be the 
> challenge in the beginning. Will read that.
> 
> it rolls access routines, ex: mosquitto_message-mid, 
> mosquitto_message-payload, ...
> 
> 
> #;1> (import bind)
> #;2> ,x* (bind* "struct mosquitto_message{
>           int mid;
>           char *topic;
>           void *payload;
>           int payloadlen;
>           int qos;
>           ___bool retain;
>         };”)
> 
> Oh, useful tool to learn, as it seems.
> 
> Thanks for the help. ... one follow-up question:
> 
> I now get a void pointer to some data in memory, and the length of the 
> payload. How can I make that e.g. a blob? Or a string?