At 04:21 PM 10/23/2001 -0700, Jennifer Cranfill wrote:
>I am trying to write a Perl to C extension that passes variable-length
>parameter lists from Perl to C. While I know how to pass variable-length
>argument lists from Perl to my XS code, I am not sure how to then call a C
>function with this variable number of arguments.
You can't--you have to fake it. Something like:
switch (items) {
case 1: foo(1); break;
case 2: foo(1, 2); break;
case 3: foo(1,2,3); break;
}
and so on. Wildly nasty, mind, but it works as well as you're going to get
in C without dropping down to assembly and building the argument list by hand.
Dan
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