On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > Two hours ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >> >> Python's 'ctypes' library, which also uses libffi under the hood, has arrays: >> http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html#arrays >> and also unions, which we don't have: >> http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html#structures-and-unions >> >> So it seems like this should be possible, and maybe we can even use >> their code. > > They guy who did ctypes knows how to deal with the libffi internals. > (He did the msvc version of the code.) > > If you look through the libffi documentation you'll see no mention of > arrays, and an explicit mention of "no special support for unions".
I understand that, but ctypes proves 3 things - it can be done - there is code to read and people to ask to figure out how - Python(!) has a nicer FFI than us for this. -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
