Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: cinvoke 0.1 released

On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 01:15:26AM +0000, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Remi Turk wrote:

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- If you need to pass C structs (by value), you'll have to use  libffi: cinvoke doesn't support them at all.

What about CInvStructure[1]? I was just glancing at the documentation when I saw this.

That's a part of cinvoke I have not implemented (and probably won't, just like callbacks and a few other things, at least until there is some demand for them). However, the CInvStructure functions are used to construct descriptions and instances of C structures at run-time. (think alignment issues...) Passing structures to functions using cinvoke can only be done using pointers though.[1] Cheers, Remi [1] http://www.nongnu.org/cinvoke/doc/cinvoke_8h.html#4d288cacc9bde484cad7d8ed1b...