Tuesday, December 20, 2005, 8:09:32 PM, François PERRAD wrote: > At 11:53 16/12/2005 +0100, you wrote:
>>I can think of two ways to fix this: >> >>- Hide every env access behind the platform stuff. That is, add >>something like Parrot_environ. > For me, this way sounds better. > The platform/env.c already exists in only two flavors (generic & win32). Right. The format of GetEnvironmentStrings differs from _environ, so there's some conversion necessary. " LPVOID GetEnvironmentStrings(void); If the function succeeds, the return value is a pointer to the environment block of the current process. " Would this be a reasonable interface? char ** Parrot_get_environ(); void Parrot_free_environ(char **env); >>- Provide platform specific PMCs. That is, there are two different >>env.pmc implementations, depending on the platform. This would be >>simpler, more isolated and probably more efficient because it avoids >>another level of indirection. Ron
