[cffi-devel] Strange equivalence

[Luís Oliveira]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> that associates, for the ECL port, a byte with the CFFI :char type. Is this
> intended per-specification? Why not using ECL's :char type, which might be
> more than one byte if the compiler and operating system expect so?

My guess is that we're using :byte instead of :char because ECL's
:char converts C chars to Lisp characters, which is not what CFFI's
:char is supposed to do. In any case, the C spec states that
sizeof(char) == 1, does it not?

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