can it be used to convert a c FILE (STDOUT) to a specific julia IO object?

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Yichao Yu <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Yichao Yu <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Jeffrey Sarnoff
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> In both version 0.4 and 0.5-dev everything is as you show until:
> >> pointer_to_array(Ptr{UInt8}(ptr[]), sz[], true)
> >> then
> >> julia> pointer_to_array(Ptr{UInt8}(ptr[]), sz[], true)
> >> 140685948747867-element Array{UInt8,1}:
> >
> > What I see is that `sz` is not updated until the stream is
> > flushed/closed. Calling `fclose` here does the job you can try to add
> > a call to `fflush` to see if it helps.
>
> I didn't realized that there's Libc.FILE which can be used to convert
> a julia IO to a c FILE. However, for reasons I've already noted, you
> can't use it to convert arbitrary julia IO object and the two are not
> sync'd with each other.
>
> >
> >>
> >> signal (11): Segmentation fault
> >> while loading no file, in expression starting on line 0
> >> alignment at ./show.jl:1104
> >> unknown function (ip: 0x7ff401d4117f)
> >> [inline] at
> >>
> /home/centos/buildbot/slave/package_tarball64/build/src/julia_internal.h:63
> >> jl_call_method_internal at
> >> /home/centos/buildbot/slave/package_tarball64/build/src/gf.c:1914
> >> ...
> >> jl_apply_generic at
> >> /home/centos/buildbot/slave/package_tarball64/build/src/gf.c:1917
> >> run_frontend at ./REPL.jl:860
> >> run_repl at ./REPL.jl:168
> >> unknown function (ip: 0x7ff4023431e3)
> >> [inline] at
> >>
> /home/centos/buildbot/slave/package_tarball64/build/src/julia_internal.h:63
> >> jl_call_method_internal at
> >> /home/centos/buildbot/slave/package_tarball64/build/src/gf.c:1914
> >> _start at ./client.jl:342
> >> unknown function (ip: 0x7ff6042f0199)
> >> jl_apply_generic at
> >> /home/centos/buildbot/slave/package_tarball64/build/src/gf.c:1917
> >> unknown function (ip: 0x401c64)
> >> unknown function (ip: 0x40181f)
> >> __libc_start_main at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (unknown line)
> >> unknown function (ip: 0x401865)
> >> /home/jas/Desktop/Juliav05: line 2:  4104 Segmentation fault
> >> /usr/bin/julia
> >>                _
> >> (generic Linux version of julia)
> >>
> >> On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 2:55:31 PM UTC-5, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thank you, much appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 2:52:01 PM UTC-5, Yichao Yu wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Jeffrey Sarnoff
> >>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> > I am bound to the api, at least for calling into the application.  I
> >>>> > don't
> >>>> > know how to do either of the things you recommend.  Could you point
> me
> >>>> > to an
> >>>> > example?
> >>>>
> >>>> See below. Note that the `open_memstream` API may not be widely
> >>>> available on non-Linux. (Apparently it's aded to POSIX though...)
> >>>> The reason you have to deal directly with C FILE* is that the C FILE*
> >>>> API is not designed to be extensible (or at least there's no portable
> >>>> API to do so). Therefore, you can't convert a opaque julia IO object
> >>>> to a C FILE* and let C libraries write through it instead...
> >>>>
> >>>> ```
> >>>> julia> p_cstdout = unsafe_load(cglobal(:stdout, Ptr{Void}))
> >>>> Ptr{Void} @0x00007f6dcb81f600
> >>>>
> >>>> julia> ccall(:fwrite, Csize_t, (Cstring, Csize_t, Csize_t, Ptr{Void}),
> >>>> "aaa\n", 4, 1, p_cstdout)
> >>>> aaa
> >>>> 0x0000000000000001
> >>>>
> >>>> julia> ptr = Ref{Ptr{Void}}()
> >>>> Base.RefValue{Ptr{Void}}(Ptr{Void} @0x000000000000000e)
> >>>>
> >>>> julia> sz = Ref{Csize_t}()
> >>>> Base.RefValue{UInt64}(0x00007f6bc942f5f0)
> >>>>
> >>>> julia> strstm = ccall(:open_memstream, Ptr{Void}, (Ptr{Ptr{Void}},
> >>>> Ptr{Csize_t}), ptr, sz)
> >>>> Ptr{Void} @0x0000000002638f70
> >>>>
> >>>> julia> ccall(:fwrite, Csize_t, (Cstring, Csize_t, Csize_t, Ptr{Void}),
> >>>> "aaa\n", 4, 1, strstm)
> >>>> 0x0000000000000001
> >>>>
> >>>> julia> ccall(:fwrite, Csize_t, (Cstring, Csize_t, Csize_t, Ptr{Void}),
> >>>> "aaa\n", 4, 1, strstm)
> >>>> 0x0000000000000001
> >>>>
> >>>> julia> sz[]
> >>>> 0x00007f6bc942f5f0
> >>>>
> >>>> julia> ccall(:fclose, Cint, (Ptr{Void},), strstm)
> >>>> 0
> >>>>
> >>>> julia> sz[]
> >>>> 0x0000000000000008
> >>>>
> >>>> julia> pointer_to_array(Ptr{UInt8}(ptr[]), sz[], true)
> >>>> 8-element Array{UInt8,1}:
> >>>>  0x61
> >>>>  0x61
> >>>>  0x61
> >>>>  0x0a
> >>>>  0x61
> >>>>  0x61
> >>>>  0x61
> >>>>  0x0a
> >>>>
> >>>> julia> ary = ans
> >>>> 8-element Array{UInt8,1}:
> >>>>  0x61
> >>>>  0x61
> >>>>  0x61
> >>>>  0x0a
> >>>>  0x61
> >>>>  0x61
> >>>>  0x61
> >>>>  0x0a
> >>>>
> >>>> julia> bytestring(ary)
> >>>> "aaa\naaa\n"
> >>>> ```
> >>>>
> >>>> >
> >>>> > On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 12:58:20 PM UTC-5, Yichao Yu wrote:
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> On Mar 9, 2016 12:38 PM, "Jeffrey Sarnoff" <[email protected]>
> >>>> >> wrote:
> >>>> >> >
> >>>> >> > I am trying to wrap this so it will (a) print to STDOUT (b) (if
> >>>> >> > possible) print to a string:
> >>>> >> > void arf_fprint(FILE * file, const arf_t x)ΒΆ
> >>>> >> >
> >>>> >> > Prints x as an integer mantissa and exponent to the stream file.
> >>>> >> >
> >>>> >> >
> >>>> >> > arf_t is made with  arf(x), that works.
> >>>> >> >
> >>>> >> >
> >>>> >> > this:
> >>>> >> >
> >>>> >> > function arf_fprint(x::arb)
> >>>> >> >
> >>>> >> >            a = arf(x); s=STDOUT
> >>>> >> >
> >>>> >> >            ccall((:arf_fprint, :libarb), Void, (Ptr{s},
> >>>> >> > Ptr{arf_struct},), &s, &a)
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> Julia does not use c FILE*, if you are bound to this api, you
> should
> >>>> >> probably fetch the c stream with cglobal or construct a string
> stream
> >>>> >> with
> >>>> >> platform dependent api.
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> >
> >>>> >> >        end
> >>>> >> >
> >>>> >> > does this:
> >>>> >> > ERROR: TypeError: Ptr: in parameter, expected Type{T}, got
> Base.TTY
> >>>> >> >  in arf_fprint at none:3
> >>>> >> >
>

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