From: luc <dubois@...>
Date: 2004-11-24T21:13:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby DL::Importable struct issue

Kevin,

Hi, nice to see you here again ;-)

I looked in the diffs at 
http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ruby/ext/dl/lib/dl/types.rb.diff?r1=1.7;r2=1.8;f=h 
and based on that, I changed the 'p' back into 'P' in dl/types.rb, as it was 
in version 1.7. Now your usage.rb passes gloriously...!

Of course I don't know what I'm doing...

Luc

"Kevin Howe" <khowe@perfnet.ca> wrote in message 
news:EYCdnZRN0fuN6z7cRVn-3g@rogers.com...
>
> Hi,
>
> The ruby182-14RC9.exe (one click installer) version of Ruby breaks some DL
> code in a gem of mine (tidy on rubyforge). The problem is with the first
> struct item which defines "byte* bp". I get the following error when I run
> the script at the bottom. If "byte*" is deliberately no longer supported,
> what would be a valid equivalent?
>
> (eval):2 in '[]': unsupported type 'p' (DL::DLTypeError)
>  from (eval):2:in 'bp'
>
> #-------
> require 'dl/import'
> require 'dl/struct'
>
> extend DL::Importable
>
> # http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/api/struct__TidyBuffer.html
> TidyBuffer = struct [
>  "byte* bp",
>  "uint size",
>  "uint allocated",
>  "uint next"
> ]
>
> struct = TidyBuffer.malloc
> puts struct.bp
> #-------
>
>