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

An hour and a half ago, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:06:34PM -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > 
> > Right, this works assuming sane C, and IIRC, with small arrays it
> > can expect the whole array to be on the stack.  (But maybe the
> > rules for structs are the same, so it works out by size only.)
> 
> C defines that when an array is the actual parameter, the address of
> it is passed instead. [...]

Yeah, sorry, I had things mixed up.


> Of course, some compilers when functions with prototypes are called,
> may do incredibly convoluted things instead to attain greater
> efficiency.  FFI would presumably have to match that complexity in
> terms of hardware register hacking.

That shouldn't be a problem for interface functions.

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