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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: guile development <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How do I determine the argument type...
Date: 18 May 2003 03:57:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87of213tk0.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EC6A6CA.94855664@veritas.com>

Bruce Korb <bkorb@veritas.com> writes:

> > I don't understand.  Both 1.6 and 1.7 have this prototype for
> > gh_scm2newstr:
> > 
> >     char *gh_scm2newstr (SCM str, size_t *lenp);
> > 
> > On what platform is the argument actually an "int*"?  Can you give a
> > specific example that must fail?
> 
> $ guile --version
> Guile 1.4
> Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000 Free Software Foundation
> ...
> $ fgrep gh_scm2newstr /opt/TWWfsw/guile14/include/guile/gh.h
> char *gh_scm2newstr(SCM str, int *lenp);
> $ uname -a
> HP-UX kibo B.11.00 A 9000/800 1596730518 two-user license

Ahh, I see.  Yes, it was not a good thing to change gh_new2str that
way.  I'm not sure what to do about this.  Changing this back is just
as bad as the original change from int to size_t.

Personally, I would stop supporting Guile 1.4 and just require Guile
1.6 for newer versions of your code...

I dirty workaround, in this particular case, might be to always pass
NULL as lenp and get the length via scm_string_length (or strlen if
you don't care about '\0' characters in the middle of the string).

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-18  1:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-10  3:27 How do I determine the argument type Bruce Korb
2003-05-10  3:31 ` Bruce Korb
2003-05-17 20:14 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-05-17 21:16   ` Bruce Korb
2003-05-18  1:57     ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2003-05-18  2:59       ` Bruce Korb
2003-05-19  0:07       ` Kevin Ryde
2003-05-19  0:34         ` Bruce Korb
2003-05-19  0:47           ` Kevin Ryde
2003-05-19  1:44             ` Bruce Korb
2003-06-01 18:45         ` Marius Vollmer
2003-06-01 20:07           ` Bruce Korb
2003-06-11 22:33           ` Kevin Ryde

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