[Openmcl-devel] Objc typedef mappings

[Gary Byers]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, todd ingalls wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a quick question. Is it possible to use def-foreign-type to
> either make an array of a user defined type or use another user defined
> type in another struct definition. For example, the following doesn't
> work. Should it? Is there another way to do this?

Structure names and type names are maintained separately.  (This is
close to how C handles things; from what I understand, C++ handles
structure and type names as being in the same namespace.)

>
>
> (def-foreign-type nil (:struct foobar (a :double-float) (b (:signed
> 32))))
>

This defines a "structure tag" named FOOBAR; it doesn't define a
type.  (You can refer to the type named by that structure tag
as (:STRUCT FOOBAR)).

> (def-foreign-type foobar-array-4 (:array :foobar 4))
>
> => Unknown foreign type: FOOBAR
>
>
> -------
>
> (def-foreign-type nil (:struct foobar (a :double-float) (b (:signed
> 32))))
> (def-foreign-type nil (:struct baz (c (:unsigned 32)) (d :foobar)))
>
> => Unknown foreign type: FOOBAR
>

Yep, it's not defined.

This distinction might be a little easier to keep in mind (you'd
at least be reminded of it more often ...) if RLET and a few other
things were less DWIMy about it.  You -can- use a structure tag in
place of a type name in RLET, and it will guess what you mean.

If any of this is unclear:

(def-foreign-type nil (:struct foobar (a :double-float) (b :int)))

is analogous to the C definition:

struct foobar {
  double a;
  int b;
};

whereas

(def-foreign-type foobar (:struct foobar (a :double-float) (b :int)))

is analogous to

typedef struct foobar {
  double a;
  int b;
} foobar.

>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
>
>
>
> Todd Ingalls
> Assistant Research Professor
> Arts, Media and Engineering Program
> Arizona State University
> http://ame2.asu.edu/faculty/todd