Re: Ptr and ForeignPtr Questions

23 Sep 2001

      At 2001-09-23 04:04, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
...
It would be impossible then to directly call a C function with a
parameter declared as a const pointer. It's illegal in C to have
mismatching prototypes of the same function.
You can always do this:

  module MyModule where
      {
      foreign import StringCopy :: Ptr Int8 -> Ptr Int8 -> IO ();
      }

which autogenerates this header:

  extern "C"
      {
      void MyModule__StringCopy(signed char* a,signed char* b);
      }

which the user can implement like this:

  char* strcat(char* dest, const char* src);

  void MyModule__StringCopy(char* dest,char* src)
      {
      strcat(dest,src);
      }

(assuming char and signed char are identical).

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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA