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Hi Nicolas.<div><br></div><div>> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">So what is needed is to get the address of the variable (exactly like we lookup address of a function), then dereference it to get the contents...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">Since I am in the process of shrinking "Alien-Core" into "FFI-Callback" ... could this be implemented with a new interface to the FFI plugin? Maybe not. Unless you can provide an exported call that the plugin can intercept to copy the address for you? If it is not already exposed in another call. Then it would be easy.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">Best,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">Marcel</span></div><div class="mb_sig"></div><blockquote class="history_container" type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px; margin-top:20px; margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;">
<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 17.06.2020 14:11:14 schrieb Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@gmail.com>:</p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Marcel,</div><div>I'm not so sure.</div><div> It does not look like a constant, but rather a variable.</div><div>The type of this variable is a hid_t, but the content can change at runtime (I believe once at HDF5 initialisation).<br></div><div>So what is needed is to get the address of the variable (exactly like we lookup address of a function), then dereference it to get the contents...<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mer. 17 juin 2020 à 12:52, Marcel Taeumel <<a href="mailto:marcel.taeumel@hpi.de">marcel.taeumel@hpi.de</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div id="gmail-m_8594618048785622203__MailbirdStyleContent" style="font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial;color: rgb(0,0,0)">
Hi Nicolas,<div><br></div><div>that's like to already be covered by ExternalPool. :-) I tried to write a lot of documentation on how to use it in the class comment.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div><div></div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-top:20px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px">
<p style="color:rgb(170,170,170);margin-top:10px">Am 17.06.2020 12:50:24 schrieb Nicolas Cellier <<a href="mailto:nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@gmail.com</a>>:</p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all, Marcel,</div><div>yet another basic requirement:</div><div><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62427197/how-one-refers-to-an-external-global-variable-in-squeak-ffi" target="_blank">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62427197/how-one-refers-to-an-external-global-variable-in-squeak-ffi</a></div><div><br></div><div>I did not even try to inquire the implementation...<br></div></div>
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