[racket-dev] [racket] newbie: foreign C structure definition question

I may be parsing your responses wrong Eli, but I don't think we should
let our use of libffi be a barrier to a good ffi. I see (require ffi)
to mean "get a good Racket FFI", not "get a Racket encoding of
libffi".

Jay

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> Two hours ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>>
>> Python's 'ctypes' library, which also uses libffi under the hood, has arrays:
>>   http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html#arrays
>> and also unions, which we don't have:
>>   http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html#structures-and-unions
>>
>> So it seems like this should be possible, and maybe we can even use
>> their code.
>
> They guy who did ctypes knows how to deal with the libffi internals.
> (He did the msvc version of the code.)
>
> If you look through the libffi documentation you'll see no mention of
> arrays, and an explicit mention of "no special support for unions".
>
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