On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu.org> wrote:
>
>
> The other more high-level feature of CObject, as far as I can see, is that
> it includes classes like CInt, CDouble, CString, CPtr or CArray. These embed
> the ABI knowledge; they support C-like pointer arithmetic (i.e. incrementing
> a CInt is equivalent to incrementing an int *).  Like an Alien, they can
> represent any of malloced/GCed/foreign storage, though the arithmetic has
> bounds checking only if the backing store for the CObject is garbage
> collected.  They are also the basic building blocks for CStruct/CUnion.
>

Some of this sort of thing exists in the module CAPI in the Newspeak
version.  A fair amount of convenience is available using such wrappers. We
also have a Win32API module. These things only contain functionality we
actually used, but they do help avoid repeating some of the boiler plate. A
higher level mechanism is certainly useful.


-- 
Cheers, Gilad
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