From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: More detailed examples of ffi Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:13:07 +0100 Message-ID: <87mxlbvlvg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20110303193026.M80VQ.5591.root@cdptpa-web14-z01> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299194012 22978 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2011 23:13:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 23:13:32 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 04 00:13:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PvHi3-0005En-Bz for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:13:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39045 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvHi2-0007QV-U0 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:13:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54201 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PvHhz-0007QC-Ba for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:13:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvHhx-0003u1-VT for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:13:23 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:39083) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PvHhx-0003te-Mt for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:13:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PvHhw-0005CV-Ck for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:13:20 +0100 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:13:20 +0100 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:13:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 14 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vent=F4se?= an 219 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.110013 (No Gnus v0.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0MQWil7TaBBycyNH5mAR9Ge3D9w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:11763 Archived-At: Hi! writes: > The other day, aidalgol and I were chatting on irc about the new ffi. > The question came up about how to define and access nested structures. > I couldn't tell from reading the manual if it can be done. There are ‘parse-c-struct’ and ‘make-c-struct’ examples in ‘foreign.test’, but no tests for ‘write-c-struct’ (argh!). > Could some more complex examples be put in the manual that more fully > exposes the capabilities of the ffi? Agreed. Patches welcome! :-) Ludo’.