Andreas Raab wrote:

>> Is there a bug in the FFI field definition code which ignores the 
>> field size parameter?
>
>
> The field size is exclusively used for padding, and no it isn't 
> ignored. Try a spec like:
>
> fields
>    "self defineFields"
>    ^#(
>        (someNumber 'long')
>        (someString 'byte' 255)
>        (anotherLong 'long')
>     )
>
> and check the accessors for anotherLong.


So I should manually copy the bytes of my string into the 
ExternalStructure and ignore the mutator that is generated?

David