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Re: [Help-smalltalk] c callouts and char**
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Help-smalltalk] c callouts and char** |
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Sun, 9 Jan 2011 22:43:04 +0100 |
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 19:50, Mathieu Suen <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2011, at 6:14 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>> No, Smaltalk objects are not automatically converted to instances from
>> the CObject hierarchy.
>
> Could it be interesting to have message like asCUChar, asCInt...?
> This could avoid writing too mush parenthesis for example:
> aCObject at: 1 put: 230 asCUChar.
I don't think this would be used very often. Your example would not
be equivalent to
aCObject[1] = 230;
but rather
char *p = malloc (1);
*p = 230;
aCObject[1] = p;
Paolo