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From: rm@fabula.de
Cc: rm@fabula.de, Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>,
	"Dale P. Smith" <dsmith@altustech.com>,
	guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What replaces scm_register_module_xxx (Doc update?)
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 15:23:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020809132333.GB25401@www> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uw5lm7g6zju.fsf@saturn.math.uni-magdeburg.de>

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 01:29:09PM +0200, Matthias Koeppe wrote:
> 
> It is an opaque argument...
> 
> >  - what is passed to the init function in the void pointer and
> >    what is the function supposed to return?
> 
> ... that is simply passed to the init function when it is invoked.

So this is "userdata", i see.

> (This makes the init function a "C closure".)  The init function
> returns nothing (it has "void" return type).

<blush>Grumpf! I _hate_ C's function pointer syntax ... </blush>

> >> I believe it's only an accident that the functions are not documented
> >> (except for the NEWS blurb).  I think documentation should be added;
> >> the changes should also go into the 1.6 release.  Preliminary
> >> documentation can be found in the above message by Marius.
> >
> > Should this be documented soon?
> 
> Ralf, maybe you want to prepare a patch that adds the documentation to
> Guile. 

This was partly implied by my question. But i first need to finish up
the docs on "guardians from C" i promised earlier this week (got dis-
tracted by all that module stuff which i need to get working asap).

  Ralf

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-09 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-08 13:48 What replaces scm_register_module_xxx (Doc update?) rm
2002-08-08 14:21 ` Dale P. Smith
2002-08-08 14:23   ` Dale P. Smith
2002-08-08 14:31   ` Rob Browning
2002-08-08 16:19     ` rm
2002-08-08 17:59       ` Dale P. Smith
2002-08-08 18:24         ` rm
2002-08-08 20:26       ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-08 21:28       ` Neil Jerram
2002-08-09 15:36         ` rm
2002-08-17 11:59           ` Neil Jerram
2002-08-19 19:05             ` rm
2002-08-09  8:47       ` Matthias Koeppe
2002-08-09 10:00         ` rm
2002-08-09 11:29           ` Matthias Koeppe
2002-08-09 13:23             ` rm [this message]
2002-08-10 14:44           ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-11 23:20             ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-17  8:09               ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-08-17 11:05                 ` Neil Jerram
2002-08-24  8:08                   ` Dirk Herrmann
2002-08-26 21:45                     ` Neil Jerram
2002-08-26 22:04                     ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-21 19:35                 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-13  0:40             ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-17 22:37               ` Dale P. Smith

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