From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2009-06-15T22:43:17+09:00
Subject: Re: wrapping a C struct[] constant

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On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Joel VanderWerf<vjoel@path.berkeley.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > Cgenerator will work, and might be a good idea if the source (the list of
> > values and strings) changes from time to time, and you would rather have
> > your program regenerate the ruby extension (and data structure)
> > automatically.
> >
> > Here's how it works, assuming your source files are flag.c and flag.h:
>
> Thanks, that looks great. I have to say, I'm a bit disappointed in the
> state of ruby/C integration - another basic thing I missed is the
> ability to define a typemap and then have a ruby class
> serialised/deserialised to a C struct. (Is that what Cgenerator's
> CShadow is all about?). Are these not common use cases?
>
> martin
>
>
Could you give an example of how this would work? I'm having a hard time
picturing how such a thing would be possible to have done automagically.
There has to be something somewhere that defines how a Ruby class would map
to said C struct.

Jason

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