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Thu, 8 Mar 2012 12:36:37 +0100 |
Hi, All,
For use from a Fortran program I am collecting API fixes for libguile.so
as wrapper functions for what is provided to C-programs as macros.
I noted that some of the macros are function-macros some are symbol
macros. An example of the latter is
#define scm_to_int scm_to_int23
This is inconsistent and makes escaping such macros slightly more difficult.
(Honestly I dont know a way yet).
One guile developer on IRC said this is "probably a good thing to fix"
so I report
it here. I dont build Guile 2 myself as the installations I use are quite
dated/conservative.
As a background, Fortran allows you to declare "foreign" functions, for example,
like this:
type, public, bind(c) :: scm_t
private
integer(c_intptr_t) :: do_not_ever_use
end type scm_t
interface
function scm_symbol_p (obj) result (yes) bind (c)
type(scm_t), intent(in), value :: obj
type(scm_t) :: yes
end function scm_symbol_p
...
end interface
This makes use of library functions quite handy. But it does not provide a
way to access a C-macro, naturally.
Alexei
#include <libguile.h>
SCM guile_macro_scm_from_int (int i);
int guile_macro_scm_to_int (SCM obj);
int (scm_is_true) (SCM obj);
int (scm_is_symbol) (SCM obj);
int (scm_is_null) (SCM obj);
SCM (scm_eol) (void);
SCM guile_macro_scm_from_int (int i)
{
return scm_from_int(i);
}
int guile_macro_scm_to_int (SCM obj)
{
return scm_to_int(obj);
}
int (scm_is_true) (SCM obj)
{
return scm_is_true(obj);
}
int (scm_is_symbol) (SCM obj)
{
return scm_is_symbol(obj);
}
int (scm_is_null) (SCM obj)
{
return scm_is_null(obj);
}
SCM (scm_eol) ()
{
return SCM_EOL;
}
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Re: bug#10974: address@hidden |
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Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:17:59 +0200 |
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Hi,
Alexei Matveev <address@hidden> skribis:
> It's ok. You may close it.
Thanks.
> I still think it could be less confusing if the libguile.so
> implemented/provided
> functions as advertised in Guile API docs for the sake of interfacing to
> languages other than C. And &scm_from_int wold also work if it were a real
> function.
>
> But there are many more macros, so such a link-time interface would be a
> lot of work, I realize by now.
Yeah. Though here, you could still write bindings for ‘scm_from_int32’
(the real function) instead of ‘scm_from_int’, for instance, no?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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