On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Tim Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Julia Users,
>
> I have been using Julia's `ccall` interface and was wondering how to handle
> C structs containing fixed-length arrays:
>
> typedef struct
> {
> uint8 x; // this is fine
> uint8 y[2]; // this will cause issues
> } MY_STRUCT;
>
>
> My current conversion is:
>
> type MY_STRUCT
> x::Uint8 // this is fine
> y::(Uint8,Uint8) // this will cause issues
> end
This works on 0.4 (after replacing the old tuple type syntax with the
new one Tuple{UInt8,UInt8} or even better, NTuple{2,UInt8})
>
> I can create `read` and `write` functions but also have to overwrite
> `sizeof` because the tuple appears to be stored as a pointer instead of
> being stored `flat`.
> Is there a better suggestion for how to store a fixed-length array?
>
> Thanks!
>
