From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2003-09-11T00:06:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling fun taking struct and not pointer to struct?

Robert Feldt [mailto:feldt@ce.chalmers.se] wrote:

> > 3) If a nested struct's members can portably be accessed by simply 
> > pretending they exist directly in the containing struct?
> >
> This is what I'm asking.
> 
> Sorry for confusion.
> 
> If 3 is the case we can use this technique for the situation 
> you mentioned.

Hmmm... I may end up doing that for now, but it's just so ugly. It sure
would be nice to have direct support for this in the DL library like so:

  module M
    extend DL::Importable

    S1 = struct [
      'int a',
      'int b'
    ]

    typealias('S1', S1)

    S2 = struct [
      'S1 c',
      'S1 d'
    ]
  end

  s = M::S2::malloc
  s.c.a = 42

Or something like that. I've looked at the internals of the DL library some,
and it seems pretty clean, so I may see if I can create a patch to do the
above.


Nathaniel

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