[squeak-dev] FFI calls to functions that expect pointers to
write results into
tim Rowledge
tim at rowledge.org
Thu Feb 5 04:06:37 UTC 2015
On 04-02-2015, at 7:27 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
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> WordArrays hold 32-bit values by definition. That does not sound like a good way to store pointers.
Not so much storing pointers as providing somewhere to be pointed *to* so the ffi call can write answers according to the pointers it passes out.
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>> I?m still hoping someone can point me to some readable doc about all this.
>>
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> I can't say that I have ever seen any documentation other than examples in the image.
I can’t say I’ve even found any there, worst luck.
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> <OT>
> Is there some reason that you would not just write a plugin for this?
> </OT>
It may well come to that, but at the moment I’m playing around and an ffi call is (usually) easy. I can make an led blink and read a button now! Pretty cool, eh?
tim
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