Re: ffi type of pointer to
- From: Mike Pall <mike-1206@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:27:40 +0200
Justin Cormack wrote:
> Would it be possible to add an ffi function that takes a ctype and returns
> the ctype of a pointer to that type? (ffi.ptrtype(ct) or something?
Well, it's not that difficult to do for the pointer case. But I'd
rather go for parameterized types, e.g.
ffi.typeof("$ *", foo_t)
ffi.typeof("struct { $ k; $ v; }[?]", foo_t, bar_t)
But I'm not sure whether the complexity is really worth it.
> I seem to have a lot of code that needs to cast bits of memory returned
> from ffi C functions to different types
Why is that? Can you give an example?
--Mike
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