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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should we add scm_to_pointer, or just use SCM_POINTER_VALUE?
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:10:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739asc2er.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878vkluepk.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:07:19 +0100")

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Adding ‘scm_to_pointer’ is nice, but ‘SCM_POINTER_VALUE’ is also meant
> to be public (and should be documented.)

Okay.

> I’m curious: why would one want to use the FFI’s C API?

Apparently he wanted to create a C callback to a Scheme procedure (using
procedure->pointer), but wanted to do the rest from C.

     Mark



      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-02 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-01  6:20 Should we add scm_to_pointer, or just use SCM_POINTER_VALUE? Mark H Weaver
2012-02-01 10:59 ` Andy Wingo
2012-02-02 21:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-02-02 21:49   ` Andy Wingo
2012-02-02 22:10   ` Mark H Weaver [this message]

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