What about ffi/types, where we can add more common (and maybe system
specific) types?
Tobias
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:00:01 +0100, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu>
wrote:
I think that's likely to be right for all platforms where Racket runs,
but we should define it in one place.
Should we add `_size' to `ffi/unsafe', risking collisions with existing
code? Or add `ffi/size' (or `ffi/size_t')?
At Fri, 8 Feb 2013 20:45:07 +0100, Tobias Hammer wrote:
This should work:
_uintptr = size_t
_intptr = ssize_t
Tobias
On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:40:43 +0100, Tony Garnock-Jones
<to...@ccs.neu.edu>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When using Racket's FFI, is there a standard C numeric type
> corresponding to size_t? If not, should there be? Many C APIs expose
> functions along the lines of
>
> ... myfunc(..., void *buf, size_t buflen, ...);
>
> and since size_t varies between 32- and 64-bit platforms, I'm unsure
> what to supply there.
>
> I note that in collects we have
>
> ./db/private/generic/socket.rkt: (define _size_t _int)
> ./mred/private/wx/cocoa/image.rkt: (define _size_t _long)
> ./racket/draw/unsafe/jpeg.rkt: (define _size_t _intptr)
>
> ... of which the last one looks most likely to work properly.
>
> Cheers,
> Tony
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