[Haskell-cafe] Help with c2hs, structs and typedefs?

8 Mar 2009

      Hey folks, I was trying to create some FFI bindings using c2hs and I
ran into trouble: I can't use the 'sizeof' and 'set' hooks for structs
that aren't defined inside a typedef.

I don't know a whole lot about C - is there any declaration I can make
to make something like my second struct work in c2hs?  Because the
second struct is what's provided in  :-)

In the following code, if you change all of the directives in the
haskell code from my_iovec_2 to my_iovec, the "unknown indentifier"
errors go away.

Thanks,
Antoine
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-- Works!
#c
typedef struct {
 void * my_iov_base;
 int    my_iov_len;
} my_iovec;

#endc

-- Broken!  I get lots of "unknown identifier" errors for
-- the #sizeof and #set hooks - but the #pointer hook seems to work.
#c
struct my_iovec_2 {
 void * my_iov_base;
 int    my_iov_len;
};
#endc

{#pointer *my_iovec_2 as IOVec newtype#}

withIOVec :: [(Ptr a, CSize)] -> (Ptr IOVec -> Int -> IO b) -> IO b
withIOVec [] f = f nullPtr 0
withIOVec bufers f
    = let len = length buffers in
      alocaBytes (length bufers * {#sizeof my_iovec_2#}) $ \ptr ->
      vecAry <- castPtr ptr
      foldM (go vecAry) 0 bufers
      f vecAry len

 where go vecAry off (ptr, size) = do
         vec <- vecAry `plusPtr` off * {#sizeof my_iovec_2#}
         {#set my_iovec_2->my_iov_base#} vec $ castPtr ptr
         {#set my_iovec_2->my_iov_len#}  vec $ cIntConv size
         return $ off + 1
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[Haskell-cafe] Help with c2hs, structs and typedefs?

Antoine Latter