On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Forrest Cahoon wrote: > Lack of documentation is driving me nuts! > > All the references I can find point me to perlapio for information about > dealing with Perl I/O inside of XS functions. That's nice ... now how do I > get one into or out of XS code? That I can't find anywhere. > > If I create an IO::File object in perl and pass it into my XS function, can > I just cast the SV * into a PerlIO * and work with that? Is that what I'm > supposed to do? > > If I create a PerlIO * in my XS code, do I pass it back to perl as an SV *? > Is it blessed in some appropriate way? What would it be, IO::Handle? > > I also can't find any way to search the perl-xs archives ... I suspect this > has been covered many times already. Sorry about the probable repitition. > > I really appreciate any help I might receive.
That makes two of us. I couldn't find so much as a shred of documentation on this. Even some example code would be better than nothing. Steve
