Opened 11 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#739 new enhancement
Allow more specific foreign types
Reported by: | Moritz Heidkamp | Owned by: | felix winkelmann |
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Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
Component: | compiler | Version: | 4.7.x |
Keywords: | ffi foreign types | Cc: | |
Estimated difficulty: | medium |
Description
Currently, typedefs cannot be used directly but have to be replaced by an approximated equivalent FFI type, e.g. typedef unsigned int foo
would have to to be referred to as unsigned-int
yielding some compiler warnings. Even worse: If the type is defined differently for different platforms, say, it might not work at all. My suggestion is to allow a similar construct like (struct "foo")
to say (unsigned-int "foo")
. With this the compiler would know what foreign type to use but insert the correct typedef name in the generated code.
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by
Milestone: | 4.8.0 |
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comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by
Estimated difficulty: | → medium |
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