On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 12:01, muppet wrote:
> On Sep 24, 2004, at 10:18 AM, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 16:04, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> >> - the XS code from h2xs
> >
> > CLI *
> > cli_parse(argc, argv)
> > int argc
> > char ** argv
> >
> > ...I changed that to 'char * &argv'
>
> this will be interpreted as something that wants to pass the address of
> one string by reference.
>
> while it will be passed as a char**, it will not be the char*[] (array
> of char *) that is actually desired. you can see that in the code that
> gets generated (you already posted it, i won't repeat it).
>
>
> > With 'char ** argv',
>
> xsubpp expects that you have supplied code to handle the charPtrPtr
> type in the way that you want. but you didn't.
>
>
> perl arrays know their length, and subroutines know how many items are
> on the stack. passing an array and its length is very non-perlish.
> i'd bind that function to take the argv array on the stack, in the same
> manner as Nick mentioned earlier (the SomeFunc() example), so you could
> use it like this:
>
> $cli = Package::Cli::parse (@ARGV);
(light just went on) Got it. Didn't get that far yet, well haven't
got back to it. I was just trying to get the basic interface to
the functions to compile and load with the basic test.
>
> you could even fetch @ARGV as a global if you wanted to go for real
> simplicity.
>
Do you mean from the XS code or have it passed by '&sub'?
>
> --
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> -- Neal, circa 1996, referring to a movie released in 1984.
