[racket] The Racket FFI is killing me, I am going insane

Most of the time, you won't need all the features of the struct.
For pointers you don't care about, you can simply use the generic _pointer
type, as long as you don't use the /types/ behind that pointer.
Note that you can still use the pointer itself though, e.g., to pass it
around functions.

And if for some reason at some point in time you need the struct definition
of that pointer, you can "expand" the definitions of your struct types a
little.

HTH
Laurent



On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org> wrote:

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> On Monday, May 27, 2013, maxwell wrote:
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>> Hello Doctor Yoo,
>>
>> I am having serious problems with the Racket FFI. Apparently, to load a
>> struct from a library, I have to know all of it's contents, and then define
>> them in terms of their contents, until everything has been defined in terms
>> of C primitives. Surely I am incorrect. Can you explain this to me? What do
>> I do if the struct I need has 200 struct pointers in it, each of which
>> points to 200 more, and so on, a couple of layers deep?
>>
>> I am sorry to bother you with this but I am going insane and I need to
>> sleep, but this is keeping me up!
>>
>> - Maxwell
>>
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> Hi Maxwell,
>
> I'm forwarding this to the Racket-lang mailing list.  Typically, it is
> better to ask communities for support rather than single people, to reduce
> dependence on one point of failure.
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